Henderson Church Of Scotland, London Road, Kilmarnock

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 02/07/1980 Supplementary Information Updated 15/05/2019 Local Authority East Ayrshire Planning Authority East Ayrshire Burgh Kilmarnock NGR NS 43082 37962 Coordinates 243082, 637962 — Thomas Smellie, 1907. Freely adapted Gothic, multi-gabled church built on steep slope with tall aisle to W; projecting gabled stair bay to SW, deep transept on E elevation and gabled projection to lower N chancel. Snecked, rubble-faced, red sandstone with contrasting ashlar dressings. Gablet skews and long gablet skewputts. Moulded window and door surrounds, drip cills. S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: curved wing walls leading to door under moulded, pointed arch, with plain reveals, in S of advanced tower, semi-circular window above containing 2-arched lights. 2-stage tower with angle buttresses; octagonal, corbelled stair-tower with pointed roof to upper right with irregularly placed slit windows; paired cusped belfry openings to main tower; crenellated parapet and angle finials to each return. Tall gable to left: pair of arches to ground floor containing paired arched windows to upper, blind wall to lower; large 4 ogee light window with teardrop lights above to gablehead, trefoil above; slit window to gablehead; gabled buttress to left angle. W ELEVATION: lower 2-storey, 4-bay aisle to centre: door to ground floor right with miniature paired windows above left, 3 large bipartite windows to left, 4 arched tripartite bays to 1st floor, central stepped buttress to both storeys; higher nave of church to rear with 4 semi-circular bays containing 3 and 4 light pointed arch windows. 3-storey gable with gabled angle buttresses adjoining to right of nave: bipartite window to ground floor, arched bipartite to 1st floor, multifoil window to gablehead. Further 2-storey stair gable to

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.