Portland Church, St Meddans Street, Troon

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 31/05/1984 Local Authority South Ayrshire Planning Authority South Ayrshire Burgh Troon NGR NS 32267 30786 Coordinates 232267, 630786 — Thomas Lunan and Henry Edward Clifford, 1914. Near-symmetrical Perpendicular Gothic church with single storey halls at rear. Squared and snecked bull-faced cream sandstone; polished sandstone dressings. Raised base course to front; moulded eaves; polished parapet to nave. Polished quoins; polished long and short surrounds to chamfered openings; sandstone mullions; moulded reveals to pointed-arched windows; sandstone tracery (trefoil-headed and rose detailing); chamfered cills; deeply recessed doors with moulded reveals; buttresses. U-plan halls at rear comprising segmental-arched openings; overhanging bracketed eaves. NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: large 5-light perpendicular traceried window centred in gable; flanking angle buttresses beneath boldly gabletted finials; small, louvred bipartite opening aligned beneath apex; cruciform finial. Single storey porch at ground in bay to outer left comprising 2-leaf timber panelled door in pointed-arch surround to right; depressed-arched glazing row set in square-headed tripartite opening in bay to left; angle buttress; crenellated parapet. 2-leaf timber panelled door in pointed-arch surround centred in taller porch to outer right; angle buttress; crenellated parapet. SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 4-bay nave comprising 2 3-light, pointed arch, traceried windows breaking eaves course flanking central buttress. Depressed-arched glazing row set in square-headed tripartite opening in gabled bay advanced to outer left (porch); buttressed angles. 3-light, pointed-arch, traceried window in gabled bay advanced to right (taller S transept); small louvred bipartite opening centred beneath apex; bu

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.