St Marnock's Parish Church, St Marnock Street, Kilmarnock is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1980. Church. 1 related planning application.

St Marnock's Parish Church, St Marnock Street, Kilmarnock

WRENN ID
inner-grate-gold
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 July 1980
Type
Church
Address
St Marnock's Parish Church, St Marnock Street, Kilmarnock, KA1 1EG
OS grid reference
NS 426 376
Coordinates
55.60734, -4.49909
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Marnock's Parish Church, designed by James Ingram in 1836, is a rectangular, six-bay church built in the Perpendicular Gothic style. It features a centrally placed four-stage tower at the north gable, constructed from pink sandstone with a base and string course, and is supported by angle, diagonal, and octagonal clasping buttresses.

The north elevation showcases a central two-leaf gothic panelled door at ground level, which is recessed under a pointed arch with moulded reveals and a crocketed ogival hood-mould. The tower, which breaks the gablehead, has a tall window with reticulated tracery set beneath a square-panelled head, a clock in a lozenge panel above, and a louvered opening with panel tracery and an ogival hood-mould in the upper stage. The battlemented parapet features square angle pinnacles. Flanking the tower are battlemented gables with tall panel-traceried windows below, and octagonal blind panelled terminal buttresses topped with crocketed and finialled caps.

The east elevation contains five similarly traceried windows, with a timber gothic door in the sixth bay, which has a hood-mould and blind lancets above. The south elevation features three geometric traceried windows, with the central window being the tallest. The gablehead finial has been removed, but diagonally placed angle buttresses and finials remain. A later single-storey addition is present on this elevation. The west elevation mirrors the east with five similarly traceried windows and a timber gothic door in the first bay, also featuring a hood-mould and blind lancets above.

Most windows are adorned with stained glass in square quarry patterns. The church has a piended grey slate roof with lead flashings and painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Inside, the church boasts a gothic revival interior, complete with the original lectern and organ.

Local climate

St Marnock's Parish Church, St Marnock Street, Kilmarnock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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