Ferniegair Mission Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 25/10/2005 Local Authority South Lanarkshire Planning Authority South Lanarkshire Parish Hamilton NGR NS 74122 54330 Coordinates 274122, 654330 — Alexander Cullen, 1900-2. 4-bay, Romanesque style chapel with 3-light arched window to gable facing road, entrance lobby and bellcote adjoining to side, and gabled hall across rear gable forming T-plan. Bull-faced snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings to principal elevations; squared, stugged, snecked sandstone with polished ashlar margins to sides and hall. Intermittent base course, 3 polished ashlar band courses to principal elevation; ashlar-coped skews; bracketed eaves. DESCRIPTION: principal elevation to NE, facing road: 3 hood-moulded narrow arched lights under hood-moulded semicircular relieving arch; shouldered buttresses flanking to each side; lunette to gable apex; 2-leaf timber panelled front door in stop-chamfered, hood-moulded round arch architrave to small piend-roofed lobby adjoining gable to right; steps to door; YOU REAP WHAT YOU SEW inscribed on riser of upper step; simple gabled bellcote between lobby and gable, at right-angle to gable. 4 bipartite mullioned windows to side elevations of church. Timber-panelled doors to each end of NE elevation of hall; bipartite windows to SE and NW (side) gables of hall; 4 windows to SW (rear) of hall. Predominantly leaded lights in timber frames; non-traditional double-glazed windows to hall. Ashlar-coped skews. Graded grey slate roof. 2 cast-iron ridge vents to hall. INTERIOR: exposed M-trussed roof to church; timber pews; timber communion table; tongue and groove panelling to dado. Very small, simple stage to hall. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. A compact and well-detailed chapel designed by a prominent local architect (see be

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.