St James' Parish Church, Prestwick Road, Ayr

John Murdoch, 1885. 2-storey, 3-bay aisled Gothic church on corner site with square-plan 2-stage tower to left. Squared and snecked sandstone. Buttresses divide bays; pointed-arched openings.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central entrance to gabled central bay; 2-leaf timber door and fanlight; flanking quatrefoil roundels; string course; 3-light tracery window aligned above; hoodmould; quatrefoil tracery to gablehead roundel; pinnacle rises from buttress to right. 3-light window at ground to bay to right; hoodmould; 3-light tracery window aligned above. Tracery window at 1st stage of recessed tower to outer left; bipartite louvred openings at 2nd stage; castellated parapet; castellated pinnacle rises from corner to outer left.

SW (FALKLAND PARK ROAD) ELEVATION: 5-bay with tower to outer right. 2-light openings at both floors to 5 bays to left. Tower to outer right (see above).

Leaded and stained glass windows. Grey slate roof; stone skews.

INTERIOR: gilded Corinthian columns and barley sugar stair balusters; pointed-arched gallery arcade; ribbed ceiling; timber pews, gallery and furnishings; organ by H Hilsdon, dated 1925 to timber panelled sanctuary; rose window.

CHURCH HALL: Alex Mair, 1933. Single storey, 6-bay red sandstone church hall (harled to side). Advanced square-headed entrance breaking roofline; 2-leaf timber door; fanlight; 2 single windows flanking; additional single window to outer right. Timber floor; round-arched proscenium; arched banded ceiling to interior.

MANSE: single and 2-storey, 5-bay manse (grouped 2-2-1). Re-entrant angle entrance to penultimate bay to left in single storey 2-bay section (linking vestry to manse); bipartite window to outer left. Tripartite window at ground floor, bipartite window at 1st floor (both round-arched) to 3rd gabled bay to left; later gabled bay to outer right, windows at ground and 1st floor; windows at ground and 1st floor to recessed bay between.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows and modern windows. Grey slate roof; ridge stacks; circular cans.

GATEPIERS, GATES, LAMP STANDARDS, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALL: square-plan gatepiers to central entrance to church; iron lamp standards surmounting; square-plan gatepiers to outer right of entrance to manse; iron gatepiers to central entrance to church hall; 2-leaf iron gates to all entrances; iron railings atop sections of coped boundary wall enclosing site.