Sandgate Church Of Scotland, 58A Sandgate, Ayr

William Gale, 1845; hall dated 1878. Rectangular-plan gabled aisled Norman church with clerestory. Polished ashlar. Base course; squared bracket cornice; angle buttresses; pyramid pinnacles.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to central arched entrance; decorative capitals to shafts; arcaded decorative corbelling to arch; ball-flower hoodmould; decorative label-stops; 2-leaf timber door; leaded fanlight; tall 3-light arched window aligned above; single shaft order; chevron moulding to arch soffits; ball-flower hoodmould; decorative label-stops; corbelled blind arcading aligned above, linked to ground by thin flanking moulding; roundel to gablehead; cuspwork and stained glass within. Single architraved round-arched windows to recessed bays to outer left and right.

NW (FORT STREET) ELEVATION, CHURCH HALL: 3-bay. Advanced lean-to entrance porch; gabletted at centre. Steps to round-arched entrance; flanking shafts; fretwork to arch soffit; square label-stops to hoodmould; 2-leaf timber door; leaded fanlight; single round-arched architraved windows flanking. 3–light window aligned above to main hall; ball-flower hoodmould; double ball-flower label-stop; roundel to truncated gable dated 1878; single round-arched architraved windows flanking.

Leaded and stained glass windows. Grey slate roof.

INTERIOR: architectural features remaining include timber panelled pulpit, screen walls and gallery; ball-flower detailing to fluted columns and corbelled wall-posts.

GATEPIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALL: iron gatepiers and 2-leaf central gate; gatepiers and single iron gates to outer left and right; iron railings surmount coped boundary wall enclosing site.