St Meddans 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 32270 30897 Coordinates 232270, 630897 — John Bennie Wilson, 1888-89. Tall galleried Gothic nave-and-aisles church on corner site with 5-stage tower to E; octagonal gallery stair turret to W; later church hall and rooms at rear; modern halls to N. Squared and snecked bull-faced red Ballochmyle sandstone; polished sandstone dressings. Architraved cill and string courses; stepped buttresses with trefoil-headed detailing centred in apex; raised, polished eaves course. Polished quoins; polished long and short surrounds to chamfered openings. Predominantly trefoil-headed windows; sandstone mullions chamfered cills. Single storey L-plan hall to rear; squared and snecked stugged red sandstone; polished dressings; shouldered-arched surrounds to openings. SE (ST MEDDANS STREET) ELEVATION: buttressed, gabled nave comprising 2 square-headed bipartite windows at ground flanking centre (vestibule lights); tiered buttresses to outer left and right; 5 light pointed-arched window centred beneath apex (trefoil-headed and rose tracery); moulded stops to hoodmould; surmounting cruciform finial. Steps to 2-leaf boarded timber doors in gabled, buttressed porches to outer left and right (dated "1888?"to right); deep, chamfered reveals to pointed-arch openings; moulded stops to hoodmoulds; finialed gables. Octagonal stair turret recessed to outer left with narrow, trefoil-headed openings at upper stage; finialed spire. 5-stage tower recessed to outer right comprising main entrance at ground (dated porch), narrow slits to lower stages, clock face and paired, louvred belfry openings with traceried heads to upper stages; cast-iron finial surmounting broached spire. NE (CHURCH STRE

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.