Bute Place, Ardrossan
1974

Between 1926 and the opening of the Church of Saint Peter in Chains in 1938, Sunday Mass was said in the Assembly Hall in Bute Place off Princes Street, by courtesy of its owner, Harry Kemp. The Hall later became The Shell Club then The Rovers Club as shown in the picture above and run by the social committee of Ardrossan Winton Rovers Football Club. It was demolished in the 1980s. The first Mass in the Assembly Hall, and indeed the first Mass in Ardrossan since the seventeenth century, was celebrated by Father Robert McCliment, a native of the town. Children’s devotions were held on Sunday afternoons.