Boundary Wall, Formerly Reid Memorial Church, Hurlford Church (Church Of Scotland), Main Road, Crookedholm is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 December 2004. 4 related planning applications.
Boundary Wall, Formerly Reid Memorial Church, Hurlford Church (Church Of Scotland), Main Road, Crookedholm
- WRENN ID
- last-doorway-smoke
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 December 2004
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a parish church, dating to 1857, with later additions, located on Main Road, Crookedholm. It was constructed by John Anderson of Galston (a mason) and William Scott of Kilmarnock (a joiner), with the spire added in 1888. The church is rectangular in plan, with a five-bay layout, and features an octagonal two-stage tower with a slated spire on the south-east corner. The building is constructed from squared pink Galston sandstone with ashlar dressings. It features shouldered buttresses, pointed-arch windows, and a church hall to the rear.
The exterior incorporates a base course, a discontinuous string course to the south-west (entrance) elevation, three string courses to the tower, an arcaded frieze, and an eaves cornice. The windows have chamfered margins. The side elevations have shouldered half-buttresses, while the corners feature full-height, stepped buttresses. The tower displays quatrefoil-headed windows, pilaster quoins to its upper stage, four pilastered gables containing clock faces at the base of the spire, and gabled louvres in the spire itself. The main entrance on the south-west elevation is a two-leaf timber-panelled door set within a double-chamfered pointed-arch architrave with a hoodmould and flanked by gabled buttresses; a five-light traceried window is positioned above the door.
The windows are predominantly fitted with 20-pane glazing in timber frames. An octagonal stack is visible on the rear gable. The spire is topped with a lead ball-finial. The building has ashlar-coped skews, a grey slate roof with bands of fish-scale slating, and cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.
Inside, a curved stone staircase rises in the tower to a gallery, which is supported by cast-iron columns. Decorative bosses are present on the ceiling beams, supported by plain corbels. There are two stained glass windows in the north-east section, depicting Jesus under the inscription 'Feed My Sheep' and John the Baptist with the inscription 'Prepare Ye The Way'. The church contains a Scots Pine gothic pulpit, communion table, lectern, font, and chairs, along with timber pews. A war memorial stained glass window depicting St George and other saints is located within the organ screen. The 1875 organ, by Forster and Andrews of Hull, is housed in a gothic carved timber case with stencilled and gilt organ pipes.
A round-coped random rubble boundary wall is located to the south-east, while a dwarf round-coped boundary wall is present to the south-west. A gabled hall is situated to the rear of the church and is linked by a vestry. A pointed-arch window features on the rear hall, with a painted-roof session room adjoining it to the south-east. A 1974 addition is located to the north-east.
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