John Knox Church, High Street, Stewarton is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Church. 3 related planning applications.

John Knox Church, High Street, Stewarton

WRENN ID
kindled-plinth-birch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 April 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 420 459
Coordinates
55.68138, -4.51376
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

John Knox Church, located on High Street in Stewarton, was built in 1841. This symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay church features a rectangular plan and a three-stage steeple above the entrance bay on the south side. The church is constructed from tooled, squared, and coursed sandstone on the south elevation, while the other sides are made of rubble. It has a base course, band course, cornice, and blocking course, along with some raised cills. There are later single-storey extensions at the rear.

The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a slightly advanced central bay with a pediment. This bay contains two leaf, six-panel timber entrance doors topped by a rectangular fanlight and a consoled cornice. The steeple features clasping Doric pilasters and round-arched louvred openings on the first stage, a clock stage above, and a finialled stone spire.

Inside, the church has a cohesive interior scheme with a panelled timber gallery on three sides, supported by slender cast iron columns. There are timber pews, and a pair of symmetrical, decoratively carved curved staircases lead up to a carved timber pulpit with an organ case situated behind it. The roof is shallow and piended, covered with grey slates. The windows are predominantly diamond leaded panes with decorative coloured glass borders and images.

Local climate

John Knox Church, High Street, Stewarton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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