St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, 23 John Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, 23 John Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- inner-corner-smoke
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
James Dempster, dated 1826 (to rear); transepts and sanctuary added by D Sturrock, 1893. Painted ashlar entrance elevation; rubble to sides and rear. Base course.
SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central roll-moulded arched entrance; crocketted ogee hoodmould rising to stylised finial; head label-stops; 2-leaf timber door; small-paned fanlight; arched 3-light traceried window over; head label-stops to hoodmould. Octagonal flanking crenellated buttresses; pierced 2-light parapet linking over gable. 2-light arched aisle windows; head label-stops to hoodmoulds over. Diagonal angle buttresses flanking; rising to finialled crocketted pinnacles; crenellated raking links to central bay.
Stained and leaded windows. Slate roof; corniced stack to rear; polygonal can.
INTERIOR: timber pews, gallery (housing organ) and dado panelling; Christ on the Cross to sanctuary flanked by stained glass windows; Stations of the Cross to nave. Banded ceilings to side-chapels; timber altars and reredos; traceried roundel windows behind set within arch.
GRAVEYARD: to NE of church; predominantly headstone graves.
BOUNDARY WALL: coped boundary wall enclosing graveyard.
Detailed Attributes
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