Church Of Our Lady And St Cuthbert's, Dailly Road, Maybole

Built 1876-9. Rectangular-plans bay Gothic church with

presbytery to west and school to east linked to form T-plan

complex; 3-stage octagonal tower with cross-finialed faceted

spire on north east corner, and entrance in gabled porch at

north west angle. Recessed door under pointed head with

splayed reveals and portrait label stops to hood-mould.

Snecked, stugged, yellow sandstone with white polished ashlar

dressings and quoins. Tower has single cusped lancets on

alternate faces; each stage set back; top stage with cusped

louvred openings on each face. Geometric traceried windows

all hood-moulded with portrait label stops in gable end and

buttressed bays of body of church. Apse in south gable. Saw-

tooth skews with cross finial and slate roof.

School extends 4 bays to east, pair of doors with pointed

heads in triangular gabled porch with figure on foliated

capital between gables. Presbytery is asymmetrical with

Gothic details; 2 storeys over basement, 3 unequal bays,

and linked to church by single bay at basement level. Snecked

and stugged red sandstone with white ashlar dressings.

Steps with cast-iron handrail leading to pointed-headed

central door with fanlight; cusped light above and cusped

bipartites in left bay at ground, basement and 1st floor

levels; similar cusped bipartites in advanced, gabled, right

bay, that on ground floor under relieving arch with blind

quatrefoil in spandrel. Gableted skewputts and decorative

cast-iron finials. Decorative ridge tiles and slate roof.