Wallacetown Parish Church, John Street, Ayr

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 10/01/1980 Local Authority South Ayrshire Planning Authority South Ayrshire Burgh Ayr NGR NS 34141 21990 Coordinates 234141, 621990 — John Kay, dated 1834 (to rear, opened 1836); renovations 1950. 5-bay, T-plan Tudor Gothic church with hall to rear; later extruded corners to nave and transept angles. Ashlar to SW elevation; rubble to SE; render to NE elevation; brick to NW elevation. Base course; crenellated blocking course to transepts and nave. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central roll-moulded 4-centred arched entrance; 2-leaf timber door; dentilled cornice; small-pane fanlight; 3-light traceried window above; flanking tall octagonal buttresses, crenellated at apex. Flanking 2-light tracery windows flanked by diagonal angle buttresses. Single windows (with cill course) to later extruded corners; motif above breaks roofline and forms shallow segment. SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: 8-bay, grouped 1-2-5. 2 traceried windows to central gable; plaque above reads "Restored 1950"; flanking diagonal angle buttresses. Single window (with cill course) to later extruded corner to outer left. 5-bay section to outer right (dividing band course); 2-leaf timber door in shouldered doorframe to recessed bay to left; split letterbox fanlight; single window aligned above at 1st floor; alternating bays of single and 2-light regular fenestration to remaining bays; deep blocking course. NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2 traceried windows to central gable; plaque above; flanking diagonal angle buttresses. Single window (with cill course) to later extruded corner to outer right (small additional window below). Brick section to later extension (2-leaf timber door, letterbox fanlight and opening to right to re-entrant angle). NE (REAR) ELEVATION: blank elevation. INTERIOR: central timber pulpit;

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.