War Memorial, Crosshouse Parish Church

The Manse, Crosshouse Parish Church, and associated structures were built in the late 19th century. The church was designed by Bruce Sturrock and Co and constructed in 1882, with an addition to the vestry in 1902. A manse, also designed by Bruce and Sturrock, followed in 1887. A war memorial stands on the property.

The church is a rectangular-plan, gabled Gothic building. It is built of polished red Ballochmyle sandstone on the main elevations, with coarser sandstone to the sides and rear. The front features a bull-faced sandstone base course and long and short quoins. Pointed-arch windows have chamfered margins. A square-plan tower, slightly recessed to the right of the main elevation, is topped by a semi-octagonal stair tower. Lean-to aisles and a vestry extend to the rear. The tower has louvred stone belfry openings on all sides of the upper stage, a decorative balustrade at the top, and clock faces on the south and east sides. The principal elevation features a large, traceried window to the gable, flanked by shouldered diagonal buttresses. A two-leaf timber-boarded door with decorative strap hinges is set within a roll-moulded, pointed-arch surround, bearing the monogram "1882" in the tympanum, and is approached by six curved steps. The east and west elevations are similarly arranged with single and mullioned bipartite windows. A rose window is positioned at the apex of the north gable.

The church interior is characterized by slender cast-iron columns supporting triangular brackets, which in turn support deep entablatures pierced by pointed openings. A combined organ and pulpit is situated against the north wall. Other features include a carved oak communion table, a decorative marble font by William Rultin of Paisley, pine pews, and predominantly 20th-century stained glass windows.

The manse is a two-storey, roughly L-plan villa with an advanced gable on the south (principal) elevation and a steep-roofed outshot to the rear. It is built of red sandstone, with ashlar facing on the principal elevations. It incorporates a base course, eaves course, and pointed windows to the first floor. A two-storey canted bay with three-light windows is present in the advanced gable, featuring decorative carving at the gable apex. The interior includes timber-panelled doors and decorative plasterwork.

The war memorial consists of a Celtic Cross on a stepped plinth, situated south of the church. Boundary walls and gate consist of a saddle-coped red sandstone wall enclosing the site. A lower wall to the road is punctuated by raised piers with pyramidal caps, and decorative cast-iron railings. Gatepiers at the entrances to the church and manse have trefoil-carved tops. A decorative cast-iron foot-gate leads to the manse garden, and a coped brick wall borders the manse garden. Non-traditional uPVC windows are noted on the manse.