[ Former] Darlington Place Church, Main Street, Ayr

The former Darlington Place Church, located on Main Street in Ayr, was originally built in 1860 by Clarke and Bell, with additions made in 1897 by John Arthur. It is a 3-bay, gabled, rectangular building with a turreted tower on the southeast corner and a rear hall. The church is constructed from coursed, squared sandstone and features lancet windows.

The southeast (entrance) elevation has a central, advanced gabled porch. A shafted, moulded recess defines the central bay, with a trumeau dividing two timber doors, decorative cusped work above, and the date "1860" inscribed in the gablehead. A five-light stepped lancet window sits above, displaying Y-tracery, cuspwork, quatre-foils, and a small opening to the gablehead, topped with a cross finial. Splayed bases are present on clasped corner buttresses, and there are truncated pinnacles. A recessed gallery stair window to the right incorporates Y-tracery, cuspwork, quatre-foils, and a cross finial at its apex, with a buttress and truncated pinnacle on the outer right. A corbelled, angled turret stair tower is on the outer left, featuring lancet and quatre-foil openings and a finial at the apex.

The southwest (North Harbour Street) elevation is an 8-bay facade, grouped as 2-5-1. To the left is an advanced gabled hall with a 3-light window and a decorative, architraved, trefoil opening to the gable. A timber door is located in the basement below, and a single timber door sits to the right of the trefoil-headed entrance. Cusped bipartite windows are present at ground level in the central 3 bays of the 5-bay section; Y-tracery and cusping adorn the gallery windows aligned above, breaking the roofline to form gables. Squat, hood-moulded, tripartite windows are at ground level in the outer bays, with tall, traceried gallery windows above. Small oval openings are in the gableheads, and truncated pinnacles flank the elevation, with a finial rising from the buttress on the far outer right. The tower, as previously described, is on the far right.

The church has leaded windows and a grey slate roof with banded fish-scale work on the tower; stone skews are also present.

The interior was converted to a theatre in 1986. Key features include curved, gilded staircases leading from the entrance porch and leaded, glazed timber doors. A coved ceiling, roll-moulded arcading, and decorative gilded column capitals are also noteworthy. The building contains library fittings originally from Nitshill Lending Library.

The site is enclosed by a low, coped boundary wall. Square-plan gatepiers mark the entrance, with a two-leaf iron gate on the southeast elevation and a single iron gate on the southwest elevation. Railings top the boundary wall.