St Ninian's Episcopal Church, Bentinck Drive, Troon

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 31/05/1984 Local Authority South Ayrshire Planning Authority South Ayrshire Burgh Troon NGR NS 32692 30350 Coordinates 232692, 630350 — James Archibald Morris, foundation stone laid 1912; nave completed 1913; chancel, organ chamber and vestry begun 1920, completed 1921; church hall completed 1927 (John Rutherford Johnstone, architect). Rectangular-plan Arts and Crafts Gothic style Episcopal church comprising nave and chancel under single roof ridge (chancel walls higher than nave); gabled porch projecting to NE; rectangular plan hall adjoined to SW forming L-plan. Squared and snecked bull-faced red Mauchline sandstone; polished sandstone dressings; half-timbered gablehead to porch. No base course; overhanging eaves; buttressed angles; polished quoins; polished long and short surrounds to openings. Chamfered surrounds to windows (predominantly square-headed); pointed-arch chancel windows; chamfered cills; block stops to architraved hoodmoulds. Pitched, Gothic timber lych gate to front; sandstone plinth; carved bargeboards. NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: single, arched opening set in projecting porch off-set to right of centre; sandstone benches lining inner walls; pointed-arched, architraved surround to timber panelled door centred within (projecting mouse motif at base). Simple tripartite windows in 4 bays to left (nave). Irregularly disposed, cusped, traceried windows in remaining 3 bays to left (chancel). NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: square-headed sexpartite window centred in nave gable (liturgical W); blind oculus aligned beneath apex (missing finial). Single storey, crenellated entrance porch recessed to right. Single storey wing recessed to right linking 8-bay hall beyond comprising crenellated outer bays (advanced to left); regularly disposed tripartite wi

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.