Winton Place Congregational Church, Dundonald Road, Kilmarnock

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/07/1980 Local Authority East Ayrshire Planning Authority East Ayrshire Burgh Kilmarnock NGR NS 42578 37674 Coordinates 242578, 637674 — James Ingram, 1860. 6-bay Early English Gothic rectangular-plan church with single storey hall of 1891 to rear forming T-plan. Stugged yellow ashlar church with polished dressings. Base and cill courses. Stepped and angle buttresses. Sandstone and white brick hall. E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5 stone steps leading to central 2-leaf timber door recessed under pointed arch doorway with moulded reveals and nook shafts, outer hoodmould with mask label-stops; notice boards flanking; 4-light moulded arch window above doorway; pointed trefoil window to gablehead with remains of stone cross finial surmounting. Semi-octagonal piers flank the door and rise to form pinnacles above gable coping. Lancet window to flanks with stepped angle buttresses. S ELEVATION: 6 regularly placed bays: pointed door with moulded surround and short lancet window above to 6th bay, long lancets with sloping cills and cill courses to remainder, stepped skewed buttresses between; angle buttresses. W (REAR) ELEVATION: gable-end with gablehead chimney adjoining single storey hall to rear (see HALL below). N ELEVATION: 6 regularly placed bays: pointed door with moulded surround and short lancet window above to 1st bay, long lancets with sloping cills and cill courses to remainder, stepped skewed buttresses between; angle buttresses. Diamond quarry lights with squared coloured borders to most with sloping sills. Piended grey slate roof with bands of fish scale detail to church, plain grey slate piended roof to hall. Partially concealed cast-iron rainwater goods. Stepped stone stack with 2 short cans to W gablehead of church INTERIOR: not seen, 2001. HA

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.