Riccarton Parish Church, Kilmarnock

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/03/1971 Local Authority East Ayrshire Planning Authority East Ayrshire Burgh Kilmarnock NGR NS 42824 36394 Coordinates 242824, 636394 — John Richmond, 1823; additions and alterations, 1911. Classical, square-plan church with angle pilasters and shallow projection to W; 4-stage tower and spire. Red stugged sandstone with polished dressings. Elevated church on railed stone terrace, reached by ashlar steps. W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay W front, central bay wider and projecting with angle pilasters supporting cornice. Central door with entablature and baroque curved pediment, supported on paired, engaged Roman Doric columns. Central Venetian and 2 outer, single lights above. "1823" in similarly detailed Baroque main pediment. Recessed bays with single light windows, those in ground pedimented as door. Tower with cornice at each stage, angle pilasters above 1st. Round-arched windows in 2nd stage, glazed to W elevation, blind to others; black clock with gold hands and Roman numerals to each face in 3rd stage; 4th stage hexagonal with small round-arched louvred openings. Hexagonal-plan spire with rollmoulding at each angle and weathervane. N ELEVATION: 4-bay side elevations, with blind Y-tracery windows to ground floor and intersecting tracery to gallery windows, giant order angle pilasters supporting moulded eaves course and cornice, right return of N extension to left. E (REAR) ELEVATION: smaller extension to ground floor left: single window, door and paired windows to left return, recesses rear of original building above with blind former window to1st floor left. Double-height extension to right concealing original elevation: tripartite window to centre, left return adjoining single storey extension, right return not seen. S ELEVATION: 4-bay side

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.