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Latitude: 56.4144 / 56°24'51"N
Longitude: -5.4708 / 5°28'14"W
OS Eastings: 185996
OS Northings: 730088
OS Grid: NM859300
Mapcode National: GBR DCWR.LWC
Mapcode Global: WH0GK.Y10H
Plus Code: 9C8PCG7H+QM
Entry Name: Congregational Church, Tweeddale Street, Oban
Listing Name: Tweeddale Street, Congregational Church
Listing Date: 20 July 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384350
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38869
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384350
Location: Oban
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Oban
Electoral Ward: Oban North and Lorn
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Church building
Alexander Shairp, 1880, with vestry and WC 1894. 3 x 6-bay classical hall church over raised basement, of rectangular plan. W (Tweeddale street) principal elevation of polished ashlar over bull-faced rusticated basement, side and rear elevations of squared grey rubble with ashlar dressings, stugged and droved at arrises.
PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 3-bay rusticated raised basement with louvered windows. Perron forestair with turned stone balusters, crypt door at centre with slit windows to either side. Pilasters with capitals and bases framing bays. Architraved, round-arched windows in recesses with panelled aprons and vermiculated keystones to outer bays. Entrance door in recess to centre, architraved with vermiculated keystone and radial fanlight above. Corniced pediment over frieze with script in
tympanum; "1880 Congregational Church".
SIDE ELEVATIONS: round-arched windows to each bay. Diamond-pane glazing to side windows, stained glass window in E wall with sunburst design; border glazing pattern to west windows. 2-leaf timber doors to crypt and hall, louvered crypt windows. Shouldered stacks to centre of N and W walls. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes, and lamp standards to forestair balustrade.
INTERIOR: pitch pine pews, pulpit to centre of E wall with office door and steps to right, matching dummy door and steps to left.
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