Castlehill Parish Church, Old Hillfoot Road, Ayr

J & J A Carrick, 1958 and 1964. Church complex comprising 1958 former church to SW (currently hall, see Notes), 1964 church to NE, and with linking single-storey entrance building, situated in prominent corner site. Red brick with contrasting cream rendered decorative sections. Distinctive rectangular brick tower rising from linking corridor with open metal and concrete lantern with cross above. Overhanging eaves.

CHURCH: single-storey, 7-bay, elongated hexagon-plan church. 2-leaf panelled timber entrance door with overhanging canopy in perpendicular linking building to left. Eaves window band with shallow pitched roof above. SW and NE elevations with 5 central, rendered bays, separated by brick pilasters and decorated with elongated hexagon designs; shallow pitched gables above. Plain end gable walls.

INTERIOR: (seen, 2012). Entrance from internal lobby via 2-leaf timber and glass panel doors with side lights. Symmetrical. Orientated NE to SW. Original, unified decorative scheme intact. Pitched timber ceiling. Exposed brick walls; timber pews; timber stairs lead to panelled timber galleries to sides. Walls to SW and NE with rendered bays, divided by brick pilasters and with elongated hexagon designs; some decorative windows. Timber communion table, font and pulpit with curved, floating sound board above.

HALL: to SW. Single storey, elongated hexagon-plan; shallow gables. SW (STREET) ELEVATION: brick base course. Central, 4, full-height projecting windows in canted angular bays with overhanging triangular covers above. Flanking smooth cream rendered sections; narrow vertical bays with upper level glazing to far right. High hexagonal window to NW elevation.

INTERIOR: (seen, 2012). Timber floor and low stage. Tall, slatted timber panel to SE with attached timber cross.

Predominantly fixed timber windows; non-traditional replacements to hall (2012). Shallow gabled roofs to church and hall; flat roofs to linking building.