St Palladius' Roman Catholic Church, Aitken Street, Dalry

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 23/12/1980 Local Authority North Ayrshire Planning Authority North Ayrshire Parish Dalry (N Ayrshire) NGR NS 29316 49280 Coordinates 229316, 649280 — Built 1851. 3-bay rectangular-plan simple Gothic church. Coursed rubble with stugged ashlar gable front and polished dressings. Central door under pointed head with moulded reveals and ogival hood-mould with label-stops and decorative finial. Flanked by simple pointed windows with decorative Y-tracery, hoodmoulds and label stops. Smaller similarly ornamented window over door. Stepped angle buttresses rising to octagonal pinnacles with cross finials. Corbelled birdcage bellcote and short faceted spire at apex of gable. 3 Y-traceried windows to east and west elevations. North-west corner linked to presbytery. Interior altered with single small stained glass crucifixion panel in vestibule opposite main door. Presbytery of same date. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Asymmetrical. Linked to church by 1 canted bay. Squared snecked rubble, with ashlar dressings. Advanced gable to left. Central lean-to porch with pointed head in re-entrant angle. Groud floor lying-pane sash windows have hood-moulds. 4-pane sash windows to 1st floor, central window smaller, window in gable to left with hood-mould, raised to a point at centre, and with label stops. Straight skews to gable, with curved skew-putts and stone spike finial. Slate roof, piended at right.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.