St Andrews Church, 39 Park Circus, Ayr

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 10/01/1980 Local Authority South Ayrshire Planning Authority South Ayrshire Burgh Ayr NGR NS 33772 21250 Coordinates 233772, 621250 — John Bennie Wilson, 1893, William McClelland, 1897 (hall). 2-bay Perpendicular church with 6-stage tower with spire to left and polygonal turret to right. Bull-faced red sandstone to entrance elevation; snecked, squared sandstone to remaining elevations. Base course; cill course. Angle buttresses to tower; clasping buttresses to main W window bay. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabletted 1st stage to square-plan tower to outer left; roll-moulded, arched entrance; colonnettes flanking; 2-leaf timber door; hoodmould over rises at centre to form scrolled gable apex; quatrefoil moulding to upper tympanum. Arrow slit window to 2nd stage. Trefoil-arched arcade to 3rd stage; alternate blind openings. Arrow slit opening to 4th stage. Blind trefoil arcade to 5th stage; central spout over; 2 louvred Y-traceried belfry openings at 6th stage; crenellated parapet above, flanked by pinnacles. Lucarnes at base of each elevation to spire; finial at apex. Steps to recessed arched secondary entrance to outer right; 2-leaf timber door; single trefoil window aligned above. Polygonal turret tower to outer right; single trefoil windows to 1st stage faces; blind slits to bipartite trefoil arches to each face at 2nd stage; finial to turret apex. 3 pairs of secondary-glazed traceried windows at ground; large hoodmoulded traceried W window to bay between; quatrefoil moulding to upper tympanum. SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: single windows at 1st and 2nd stages to tower to outer left (see above); 3 pairs of secondary-glazed trefoil-headed nave windows; quadripartite traceried gallery windows above to 2 bays to left; arched, hoodmoulded window to right. Catsli

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.