Our Lady of the Assumption and St Meddan Catholic Church

Our Lady of the Assumption and St Meddan is a Catholic church in the Ayrshire toun o' Troon.It was biggit bi architect Reginald Fairlie in 1911. The buildin o it wis funded by a bequest fae John Patrick Crichton Stuart 3rd Marquess of Bute. It is Category A listed. The Church o Our Lady of the Assumption an St Meddan is considered yin o the best wirks o Fairlie an tae be yin o the maist important buildings o late Neo-Gothic in Scotland. The church wis considert by the architect an biographer Patrick Nuttgens as yin o Fairlie's best buildings. The church building is locaited at the intersection o St Meddans Street an Cessnock Road. The masonry consists o coarse tae irregular blocks o carved cream-coloured an embossed sandstane. At the northwest-exposed front rises a squat-looking three-storey toor. This haes an elongated flair plan a occupies a'maist the entire width o the nave. The central entrance doorway is designed wi a round arch wi profiled soffit. Aboon is a tracery o four slender arched windaes. Buttresses divide the five arches wide, side facades. The apse oan the southeast side is semi-octogonal. The building has a slated gable roof. Across the chancel arch is a roodbeam, a crucifx flanked by the figures o Mary an St John, an unusual feature in a church in Scotland. References