Cathedral Of The Good Shepherd, 37 Dalmilling Crescent, Ayr

John Torry, 1955-7; refurbished 1985. Near-rectangular-plan Roman Catholic church with modernist Scandinavian. Brick. Cill band course to entrance elevation. Predominantly square-headed window openings.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled entrance porch; round-arched entrance; 2-pairs of timber doors; fanlight; flanking single windows; single windows to re-entrant angles; stepped E window to gable (central opening round-arched); cross to gablehead. 2 round-arched windows to return of canted bay to outer left. Square-plan tower to outer right; rectangular plaque; band course to 3 corniced openings; vertical round-arched narrow stair window; 2 windows flanking; smaller louvred square-plan bell-tower atop.

NW (DALMILLING ROAD) ELEVATION: 10-bay, grouped 1-5-1-3. Advanced square-plan tower to outer left (see above). 5 nave windows; 4 tripartite windows and one advanced round-arched window to side-aisles. Shallow gabled advanced chapel bay; tall strip window; flanking bipartite windows. Glazed timber door and tripartite window to advanced adjoining bay to right; tripartite window to re-entrant angle; 3-light window to altar bay to right; small square window to advanced section to outer right.

SE (DALMILLING CRESCENT) ELEVATION: 8-bay, grouped 1-1-6. 3-light window to altar bay to left; single window to advanced single storey section below, linking arched walkway from church to manse. Shallow gabled advanced chapel bay; tall strip window; flanking bipartite windows; single window to return to right. 5 nave windows, statue of the Good Shepherd in final bay to right; timber door with fanlight and flanking round-arched windows to single storey side aisle to left, spanning 2 bays; polygonal-plan bay with round-arched windows to right; tripartite windows at ground to remaining bays between.

SW ELEVATION: not seen 1999.

Small paned windows; stained glass (see below). Roof unseen 1999; wallhead stack; circular can. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: includes fittings from Pugin & Pugin's St Robert Bellarmine, Glasgow and stained glass from Pugin & Pugin's Our Lady and St Margaret's Church in Kinning Park, Glasgow (1882). Corniced flat-roofed ceiling; brick arches to side aisles; Stations of the Cross between; timber pews and altar furnishings; marble detailing to side chapels; timber surround to Christ on the Cross; E window organ gallery; timber parquet, carpeted and tiled flooring.

GATEPIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALL: square-plan brick gatepiers to NE, SW and NW elevations; 2-leaf and single iron gates and railings atop brick boundary wall enclosing site.