Lugar Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 06/11/1979 Last Date Amended 22/08/2016 Local Authority East Ayrshire Planning Authority East Ayrshire Parish Auchinleck NGR NS 59082 21340 Coordinates 259082, 621340 — A 6-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled church converted in 1867 from an 1840s ironworks engine house and an adjoining, circa 1867, lower, single-storey 5-bay former manse to southeast (Kirklee Cottage). The two buildings form the northwest corner of an L-plan run of adjoining single-storey cottages. The buildings are stugged, coursed, rubble and have smooth margins, raised cills and overhanging eaves. Both buildings have purple slates and there is a ridge chimney stack to the cottage. The church has a lower porch to northwest and a bellcote on the gable above. There is a 2-leaf timber entrance door on the east elevation of the porch, set within a corniced door surround. The windows are mostly fixed, large, multi-pane timber windows with two horizontal panels of plate glass above 6 panes below. Kirklee Cottage has a central timber entrance door with fanlight above to the west elevation. There are 4- over 6-pane timber lying-pane timber sash and case windows to the west elevation and replacement windows to the east. There is a later, flat-roofed extension to the east. The interiors were seen in 2016. The church has a central row of pews with two side aisles. There is a wide, kingpost timber roof and a timber boarded gallery to the north, supported by iron columns. The east wall has an infilled round-arch. The doors are panelled timber doors and some have decorative metal grills above. A curved staircase with metal barley sugar twist balusters leads to the gallery. Kirklee Cottage has some simple plaster cornicing and decorative ceiling roses in the main public rooms. There is a square-plan

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.