Colmonell Parish Church, Manse Road, Colmonell

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 14/04/1971 Supplementary Information Updated 05/09/2023 Local Authority South Ayrshire Planning Authority South Ayrshire Parish Colmonell NGR NX 14473 85790 Coordinates 214473, 585790 — Dated 1772, St Colmon Parish Church is a rectangular-plan church designed in the Early English Gothic style. The church was recast and enlarged by David Bryce in 1849 and external and internal alterations were made by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1899, including the addition of the east porch and the balustraded exterior stair to the choir gallery. Located in the Stinchar Valley, the church is located at the western end of the village of Colmonell and sits on an elevated churchyard site. The church is constructed in coursed granite rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings, moulded and pointed hoodmoulds and angled buttresses. The south elevation is rendered. There is an open bellcote on top of the east gable and a porch addition is attached to the east elevation, slightly lower in height, forming the main entranceway into the building. The later porch has two pointed arched windows flanking the chamfered entrance opening and a blind oculi window in the gable apex. There is an off-centre gabled porch on the north elevation and, on the west elevation, three tall lancet windows with a continuous hoodmould above. The south elevation contains a lintel and two datestones in the wall above one of the buttresses that read in date order: 'HEIR IS ANE HOUS BU[I]LT TO SERVE GOD, 1591 / 1772 / 1849'. A datestone in the wall next to the exterior choir gallery entrance reads: '1899'. The interior of the church, seen in 2023, largely dates from the late-19th and 20th centuries. Decorative features include stained pine pews, a carved timber font (in memory of Captain Peter Norman Tinn, wh

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.