St Andrew's Episcopal Church, South Crescent Road, Ardrossan is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1980. Church.

St Andrew's Episcopal Church, South Crescent Road, Ardrossan

WRENN ID
gaunt-cornice-ivy
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 February 1980
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 239 420
Coordinates
55.63974, -4.79811
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Andrew's Episcopal Church, located on South Crescent Road in Ardrossan, was designed by architect David Thomson from Glasgow in 1875 and is built in the Early English Gothic style. The church features a nave and a lower chancel with shallow transepts, constructed from pink, snecked sandstone. At the west entrance, there is a projecting gabled porch flanked by lancet windows, with a rose window situated above. The nave has three cusped lancets, while the chancel contains paired lancets and a triple light window on the east side. The transepts are adorned with large geometric traceried windows. Inside, the church boasts an elaborate timber crossing.

Local climate

St Andrew's Episcopal Church, South Crescent Road, Ardrossan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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