Dalziel High Parish Church, Merry Street, Motherwell

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 10/12/2001 Local Authority North Lanarkshire Planning Authority North Lanarkshire Burgh Motherwell And Wishaw NGR NS 75193 57123 Coordinates 275193, 657123 — 1874. Gothic church, cruciform-plan, square 3-stage tower with broach spire to E corner and round 2-stage tower setback from S corner, gabled porch. Squared and snecked yellow sandstone coursers with ashlar margins. Base course, gallery height string course, predominantly flowing tracery to lancet windows with hoodmoulds to principal openings. SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stone steps 2-leaf door within gabled porch to centre; double chamfered pointed entrance arch, engaged supporting columns with stiffleaf capitals, hoodmoulds with foliate stops, trefoil to gablehead, cross finial, crocketted stone finial to apex of gable. Small lancets to flanking bays, continuous cill course. Large 4-light window with quatrefoil to gablehead, block finial to apex. Square tower to outer right bay; continuous hoodmoulds to openings, string course between stages. 4-centered-arched door to ground, staggered small cusped lancets to right return; tripartite window to 2nd stage, engaged columns to mullions, trefoil above; bowed oriel on fan corbel to centre of left return, staggered lancets, stepped string course; paired lancets below 3rd stage string course. Battered to 3rd stage; tripartite arcaded opening to belfry, engaged columns to mullions, clock face above. Corbelled, crenellated parapet, corner canon spouts. Broach spire. Squat, 2-stage round tower to outer left bay; double-moulded, 4-centred arch door to SE, tall lancet to S of 2nd stage, small lancet to SE; billeted cornice, conical roof. NW (REAR) ELEVATION: obscured by adjoining church hall. NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: 5-bay nave; tower to outer left bay; regula

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.