St Andrews Church, 39 Park Circus, Ayr

John Bennie Wilson, 1893, William McClelland, 1897 (hall). 2-bay Perpendicular church with 6-stage tower with spire to left and polygonal turret to right. Bull-faced red sandstone to entrance elevation; snecked, squared sandstone to remaining elevations. Base course; cill course. Angle buttresses to tower; clasping buttresses to main W window bay.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabletted 1st stage to square-plan tower to outer left; roll-moulded, arched entrance; colonnettes flanking; 2-leaf timber door; hoodmould over rises at centre to form scrolled gable apex; quatrefoil moulding to upper tympanum. Arrow slit window to 2nd stage. Trefoil-arched arcade to 3rd stage; alternate blind openings. Arrow slit opening to 4th stage. Blind trefoil arcade to 5th stage; central spout over; 2 louvred Y-traceried belfry openings at 6th stage; crenellated parapet above, flanked by pinnacles. Lucarnes at base of each elevation to spire; finial at apex. Steps to recessed arched secondary entrance to outer right; 2-leaf timber door; single trefoil window aligned above. Polygonal turret tower to outer right; single trefoil windows to 1st stage faces; blind slits to bipartite trefoil arches to each face at 2nd stage; finial to turret apex. 3 pairs of secondary-glazed traceried windows at ground; large hoodmoulded traceried W window to bay between; quatrefoil moulding to upper tympanum.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: single windows at 1st and 2nd stages to tower to outer left (see above); 3 pairs of secondary-glazed trefoil-headed nave windows; quadripartite traceried gallery windows above to 2 bays to left; arched, hoodmoulded window to right. Catslide roof to church hall entrance to re-entrant angle; 2-leaf timber glazed door; tripartite traceried window to church hall; recessed walling to outer right.

NE ELEVATION: predominantly obscured by later additions

NW ELEVATION: not seen 1999.

Traceried and stained glass windows (some secondary glazing). Slate roof with terracotta ridge. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: carpeted and timber floor; round-arched red sandstone doorpieces flank altar; decorative timber pulpit and seating; traceried timberwork to ambulatory and reredos; central timber pulpit; organ behind. Painted platform roof; with carved timber bracing; timber stained glass doors with fanlights leading to staircase to galleries; timber semi-trefoil detailing to canted arched gallery bays, supported on stone pillars. Stained glass windows to nave. Timber floor and dado panelling to church hall.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: low gatepiers to outer right and left; gabled shaped copes; low boundary wall to entrance elevation; higher coped wall to remaining elevations.