St Andrews Church, 39 Park Circus, Ayr

St Andrew’s Church was built in 1893, with an adjoining hall added in 1897 by William McClelland. It is a two-bay church designed in the Perpendicular style by John Bennie Wilson, and includes a six-stage tower with a spire to the left, and a polygonal turret to the right. The church is constructed primarily of bull-faced red sandstone on the entrance elevation, with snecked, squared sandstone to the remaining sides. A base course and cill course are visible, along with angle buttresses to the tower and clasping buttresses to the main western window bay.

The south-western (entrance) elevation features a gabletted first stage to the square-plan tower. A roll-moulded arched entrance is flanked by colonnettes, with a two-leaf timber door set beneath a hoodmould that rises to form a scrolled gable apex, incorporating quatrefoil moulding in the upper tympanum. An arrow slit window is located on the second stage. A trefoil-arched arcade is seen on the third stage, with alternate blind openings. Further features include an arrow slit on the fourth stage, a blind trefoil arcade on the fifth stage with a central spout, two louvred Y-traceried belfry openings at the sixth stage, and a crenellated parapet flanked by pinnacles. Lucarnes are set at the base of the spire, culminating in a finial at the apex. Steps lead to a recessed arched secondary entrance with a two-leaf timber door, above which is an aligned single trefoil window. The polygonal turret has single trefoil windows on the first stage, and blind slits forming bipartite trefoil arches on each face at the second stage, topped with a finial. The elevation also features three pairs of secondary-glazed traceried windows at ground level, a large hoodmoulded traceried window to the bay between, with quatrefoil moulding to the upper tympanum.

The south-eastern (side) elevation has single windows at the first and second stages of the tower. Three pairs of secondary-glazed trefoil-headed nave windows are visible, alongside quadripartite traceried gallery windows above the first two bays. There is an arched, hoodmoulded window to the right. A catslide roof extends from the church hall entrance at the re-entrant angle, featuring a two-leaf timber glazed door and a tripartite traceried window. Recessed walling is located to the outer right. The north-eastern elevation is largely obscured by later additions. The north-western elevation was not observed in 1999.

Inside, the church has carpeted and timber floors, with round-arched red sandstone doorpieces flanking the altar. Decorative timber features include a pulpit, seating, an ambulatory, a reredos and a central pulpit. An organ is located behind. A painted platform roof has carved timber bracing, and timber stained glass doors with fanlights lead to the staircase of the galleries. Further timber semi-trefoil detailing is found in the canted arched gallery bays, supported on stone pillars. Stained glass windows are present in the nave. The church hall has a timber floor and dado panelling.

Low gate piers with gabled copes are visible to the outer right and left, along with low boundary walls to the entrance elevation and higher coped walls to the remaining elevations. The church has a slate roof with a terracotta ridge and cast-iron rainwater goods.