Bute Place, Ardrossan
19 September 2002

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 occupied the vacant ground behind the Jas Campbell & Co building. The Hall later became The Shell Club then The Rovers Club. It was demolished in the 1980s.The first Mass in the 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.