Old Photograph Shore Road Stevenston Scotland

Old photograph of houses and Ardeer Parish Church on Shore Road in Stevenston in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The church was officially opened on Friday, 14 June 1895, the dedicatory service being conducted by the Reverend Alexander Robertson McEwan. Reverend Andrew Morris Moodie’s first sermon in the new church was to the children on the afternoon of Sunday, 16 June 1895. It is early 20th century red sandstone Gothic building in the perpendicular style, designed by John Bennie Wilson. Perpendicular Gothic, it has an octagonal two-stage tower, with corbelled shafts at the angles to the upper stage flanking bipartite belfrey louvred lights; the parapet has battlements and truncated pinnacles are located at the angles.



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