Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

ALLOWAY, ALLOWAY PARISH CHURCH (CHURCH OF SCOTLAND) INCLUDING GRAVEYARD, GATEPIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLLB21472

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
10/01/1980
Local Authority
South Ayrshire
Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Burgh
Ayr
NGR
NS 33241 18022
Coordinates
233241, 618022

Description

Campbell Douglas, 1858; alterations J MacVicar Anderson, 1890 and later alterations. Near rectangular-plan with transepts, Gothic church, on corner site. Tooled squared sandstone; ashlar dressings. Base course.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: traceried and hoodmoulded window with sculpted-head label stops; 7-lights under sphere triangle of tracery with inverted Y of conventional 2-light windows radiating from central hexagon; flanking angle buttresses; pinnacles atop; corbelled bellcote with quatrefoil opening beneath; cross finial at apex.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2 arched nave windows to left; buttress between. Arched porch entrance; sculpted-head label stops; 2-leaf timber door; mosaic tiled floor; quatrefoil to gable; circular cross finial at apex; single arched windows to returns; single nave window to right. 3-light window to transept; single window to return to left; steps to entrance to left; 2-leaf timber door; cross to central canted face to right, single windows flanking; 4 single windows to outer right.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: 5 single windows to left; timber door and letterbox fanlight to centre; single arched window adjacent; traceried E window; flanking buttresses; advanced inner timber opening to right of gable; 2 single shouldered windows to outer right.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 4 arched window openings to nave; buttresses between. 3-light window to transept; single windows to returns. 2 shouldered entrances to left; timber doors; trefoil window above door to right. Single windows to all faces of advanced canted section to outer left.

Stained glass windows includes work by J & J Keir (1880), Clayton & Bell (1891) and Christopher Whall (1922). Slate roof; stone skews. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: dominated by large stained glass windows to E and W elevations (stone surround to quatrefoil opening to arch apex of W window) transept and nave window openings. Arched brace collar timber roof; moulded stone corbels. Timber pews, dado panelling; organ frame; pulpit; arched timber-panelled roof to altar; stone font.

GRAVEYARD: predominantly 19th and 20th century headstone graves.

GATEPIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALL: square-plan vehicular gatepiers to outer left and right of Alloway elevation; pyramid copes (trefoils within); lamp to left gatepier to outer right only; 2-leaf iron gates; single iron gate to entrance to N elevation. Decorative railings atop low coped boundary wall to Alloway; higher boundary wall encloses remainder of site.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Building works amounted to #1750. Belfry stands 66 feet. Modern church hall stands to E of church and graveyard. Of particular note for its outstanding stained glass work by Keir and Clayton & Bell. Described by Rob Close as, "Typical Douglas: accomplished, idiosyncratic, and enjoyable" (p156).

References

Bibliography

Ordnance Survey map, 1858 (not evident), Ordnance Survey map, 1896 (evident); FH Groome ORDNANCE GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND, Vol 1 (1882), p44; John Strawhorn and Ken Andrew DISCOVERING AYRSHIRE (1988), p108; Rob Close AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN (1992), p156; Dane Love PICTORIAL HISTORY OF AYR (1995), pp15, 58; NMRS Photographic Archive (AS 366).

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

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