Old Parish Church, Ayr Street, Troon

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 31/05/1984 Local Authority South Ayrshire Planning Authority South Ayrshire Burgh Troon NGR NS 32060 30907 Coordinates 232060, 630907 — Hippolyte J Blanc, 1894. Near cruciform-plan church with decorated Gothic detailing; part-built 2-stage tower to E angle; later single storey wing linking earlier church to NW. Squared and snecked bull faced red sandstone (pink Barmskimming); polished sandstone dressings. Raised base course; moulded string and eaves courses; polished skews. Buttressed angles with gableted pinnacles; flying buttresses dividing nave bays. Polished quoins; polished long and short surrounds to pointed-arched openings; chamfered reveals; decorative tracery; foliate stops to architraved hoodmoulds. NE (AYR STREET) ELEVATION: gabled entrance comprising 2 leaf timber panelled door centred at ground; architraved, pointed-arched surround with nook-shafts; 3-light glazing rows at ground in bays to left and right; large 5-light geometric-traceried window centred above (engaged colonnettes); small tripartite window beneath finialed apex; clasping angle buttresses with gableted pinnacles. Single window at ground in bay off-set to left of centre; square-plan tower to outer left with 3-light window at ground; single window aligned above. Single window at ground in bay off-set to right of centre; N transept recessed to right with timber panelled door at ground; traceried window aligned above; small tripartite window centred beneath apex. Single storey linking wing recessed to outer right with 2-leaf timber panelled door in central buttressed gable; single window aligned beneath apex; tripartite window in bay to outer right (square-headed); paired and single windows in bays to left (pointed-arched). SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled door a

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.