St Joseph's R C Church, Hill Street, Kilmarnock

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 01/08/2002 Local Authority East Ayrshire Planning Authority East Ayrshire Burgh Kilmarnock NGR NS 42821 38378 Coordinates 242821, 638378 — 1847. 5-bay rectangular-plan Gothic church with oversized facade; 2-storey L-plan priest's house adjoined to church by 2-storey, 3-bay sandstone extension. Pink sandstone ashlar church facade, parapet and lead buttresses. Coursed sandstone rubble to other elevations. Vermiculated base course. Corbelled parapet and pinnacles. Giant buttresses. S (FORMER PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: giant 3-bay facade: central pointed arched door surround with hoodmould, now in-filled with later glass blocks and red sandstone, giant lancet window above, paired pinnacles on columns surmounting with stone cross on arch between; vermiculated base course leading to flanking stepped chamfered buttresses, moulded gablet pinnacles surmounting. Tall lancet windows to outer bays, corbelled parapet above; to outer angles stepped chamfered buttresses with pyramid capped corbelled pinnacles surmounting. W ELEVATION: 5-lancet bay with stepped buttresses between and to angles, parapet above and later projecting piended porch with central pointed arched door below shortened 5th bay; later lean-to porch with door in left return clasping 3rd bay and buttress; 3 pointed cast-iron ventilators to apex of roof. N (REAR) ELEVATION: smaller chancel gable with cast-iron roof ventilator to apex of roof and extension of Priest's house adjoining main gable. E ELEVATION: 5-lancet bay with stepped buttresses between and to angles, parapet above and later small window below shortened 1st bay, later lean-to porch with door in right return clasping 3rd bay and buttress; Priest's house adjoining angle buttress to right. Glass bocks where within main door surround; opaqu

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.