St Palladius' Roman Catholic Church, Aitken Street, Dalry

Built 1851. 3-bay rectangular-plan simple Gothic church.

Coursed rubble with stugged ashlar gable front and polished

dressings. Central door under pointed head with moulded

reveals and ogival hood-mould with label-stops and

decorative finial. Flanked by simple pointed windows with

decorative Y-tracery, hoodmoulds and label stops. Smaller

similarly ornamented window over door. Stepped angle

buttresses rising to octagonal pinnacles with cross finials.

Corbelled birdcage bellcote and short faceted spire at

apex of gable. 3 Y-traceried windows to east and west

elevations.

North-west corner linked to presbytery. Interior altered

with single small stained glass crucifixion panel in

vestibule opposite main door. Presbytery of same date. 2

storeys, 3 bays. Asymmetrical. Linked to church by 1

canted bay. Squared snecked rubble, with ashlar dressings.

Advanced gable to left. Central lean-to porch with pointed

head in re-entrant angle. Groud floor lying-pane sash

windows have hood-moulds. 4-pane sash windows to 1st

floor, central window smaller, window in gable to left with

hood-mould, raised to a point at centre, and with label

stops. Straight skews to gable, with curved skew-putts

and stone spike finial. Slate roof, piended at right.