Church Of Scotland, Prestwick South Parish Church, 50 Main Street, Prestwick is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 August 2003. Church.
Church Of Scotland, Prestwick South Parish Church, 50 Main Street, Prestwick
- WRENN ID
- silver-niche-juniper
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 August 2003
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 351 259
- Coordinates
- 55.49946, -4.6113
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Prestwick South Parish Church, built between 1882 and 1884 by James A Morris, is a rectangular plan Gothic church featuring a spire. It is constructed from coursed grey Craiksand sandstone with polished margins, and red sandstone rubble is used on the west side. The church has a base course, pointed-arch openings, chamfered reveals, and eaves course, along with buttresses.
The principal elevation is asymmetrical with three bays and a three-stage tower on the outer right. It includes a broad gabled and buttressed bay with a wide four-light hoodmoulded traceried window, which has a blind tripartite section at the apex topped with a stone finial. To the right, there is a lower entrance bay featuring a gabled doorpiece with a rounded-arch chamfered door surround, hoodmoulded with roll-moulded reveals, and a two-leaf boarded timber door with strap hinges. The outer left side has a narrow bay with lancet windows formed by the return of the aisle.
The square-plan three-stage tower has diagonal buttresses that rise to create cylindrical stone pinnacles. The first stage features a lancet window, while the second stage has paired louvred openings, and the tower culminates in a polygonal stone spire with a louvred lancet and a finial.
The northeast elevation is nearly symmetrical, showcasing five bipartite windows in the aisle bays. The right side is made of red sandstone blocks, while the center features a traceried bipartite window. The outer gabled bay on the right is constructed from red sandstone rubble.
Inside, the church consists of a nave and aisles, with pointed-arched arcades supported by elegant columns with stylised capitals. The interior includes simple pews and fine stained glass windows, including works by Oscar Paterson. The roof is made of grey slate, sweeping over the aisles, with a pierced terracotta ridge. Coped stone skews are present, along with gableted and blocked skewputts, and cast-iron rainwater goods with top hoppers.
Local climate
Church Of Scotland, Prestwick South Parish Church, 50 Main Street, Prestwick sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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