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Pier built 1832-4. L-plan pier. Coursed tooled rubble with some concrete alterations and wooden buffers. Wooden steps at south west corner. Later concrete slip entering harbour at angle. Regular ferry service.
MV Loch Riddon is a ro-ro car ferry, built in 1986. She was the third of four drive-through ferries built in the 1980s by Dunston's of Hessle, on the River Humber, to cope with increasing traffic on CalMac's smaller routes.
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By John Wilson Paterson (H M Office of Works), 1929-32. 2-storey, 7-bay Neo-classical building used as a delivery office only. Squared and snecked bull-faced red sandstone with polished dressings. Deep base course and cornice, surmounted by parapet pierced by balustrade to centre section. Door off-centre with two round headed windows to right; remaining multi-pane larger to ground with surrounds.
The building is a relatively rare example of an interwar civic commission and is an interesting example of interwar Neo-Georgian architecture in Scotland, commonly used for such buildings at this time. With dwindling departmental budgets and the increasing threat of conflict in Europe, relatively few government commissions were built during the 1930s.
John Wilson Paterson (1887-1969) was Chief Architect at the Edinburgh H M Office of Works. Paterson was best known for designing Edinburgh Sheriff Court (1934-7).
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By renowned architect John Loughborough Pearson, 1888; completed by Frank Pearson, 1898-1900. 2-bay Early English Gothic church with 3-stage square-plan tower (completed by Roger Pinckney, 1964). Coursed, squared sandstone. Buttresses divide bays. Cill course; lancet-arched openings. Lower 2-stages of tower to left original, 3rd stage 1964; 3 arched louvred openings at 3rd stage; castellated parapet; pyramidal roof with cross finial. 3-bay. Tracery window to St John's Chapel to outer left; 2 stages of 3 openings to sanctuary; moulded roundels flank taller central window at upper stage; arrowslit opening to gablehead; cross finial to gablehead. 2 single openings to lower height section to right; tall stack to blank gablehead of N aisle aligned above.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such (Scottish Episcopal). The church opened for worship in 1900, and was consecrated in 1908, replacing the previous Fullarton Street Church of 1839. The architect of Holy Trinity, John Loughborough Pearson, also designed Truro and Brisbane Cathedrals, with this church being of special interest as the only example of his work in Scotland.
The bell on display, approximately 15 inches in diameter, is inscribed, "Michael o Bvrgerhvys o Me o Fecit o 16Z5." The bell was cast at Middelburg in Holland in 1625 to the order of Rev. John Fergusson, who was minister of the parish of Barnweil, then an Episcopal Church. It was presented to the present church by Major General Neill in 1857, and hung in a wooden belfry (now removed). The church's proposed 92ft tower and spire, replaced by a truncated tower in precast concrete by Roger Pinckney in 1964.
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