North Parish Church, Montgomerie Street, Girvan is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1980. Parish church. 2 related planning applications.
North Parish Church, Montgomerie Street, Girvan
- WRENN ID
- grim-brick-peregrine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1980
- Type
- Parish church
- Address
- North Parish Church, Montgomerie Street, Girvan, KA26 9HE
- OS grid reference
- NX 187 981
- Coordinates
- 55.24396, -4.85236
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
North Parish Church, located on Montgomerie Street in Girvan, was built in 1883 by W G Rowan to replace the Old Kirk in Church Square. The church is designed in the Early English Gothic style and constructed from snecked red sandstone with polished dressings. It features a nave with north and south aisles and shallow transepts, along with a tower topped by a tall spire at the southwest corner.
The central entrance is a pointed arch with moulded reveals and nook shafts set within a shallow gabled projection. Above the entrance, there is a tall three-light geometric traceried window that rises into the gable head. The nave is supported by stepped buttresses that rise to octagonal turrets with conical roofs. The north aisle includes a gabled and stepped buttress leading to a three-stage tower, which has angle buttresses capped by octagonal pinnacles that embrace the tall facetted spire. Lucarnes are positioned between the pinnacles at the base of the spire and on alternate faces above.
Inside, the church has a conventional seating plan, featuring a well-crafted panelled gallery balustrade, decorative roof trusses, a painted frieze, and stars on the ceiling.
Local climate
North Parish Church, Montgomerie Street, Girvan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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