Free Church, Coulter

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 27/04/1995 Local Authority South Lanarkshire Planning Authority South Lanarkshire Parish Culter NGR NT 02763 35438 Coordinates 302763, 635438 — Dated 1843; wallheads raised and windows altered 1874 by Thomas Bisset. Rectangular-plan, simple Gothic-style aisleless former church with bellcote. Dark whinstone rubble, formerly harled to sides and rear, cream sandstone ashlar dressings, grey slate roof. Buttressed angles to front, margined angles to rear, ashlar-coped skews; pointed windows with stugged dressings to front, margined Y-traceried windows to sides, margined pointed windows to rear; ridge ventilator. FRONT ELEVATION: ashlar-coped pedimented doorpiece to centre with 2-leaf boarded doors, roll-moulded jambs and pointed-arch overdoor with date panel, window to left and right, large round gallery window above with 4 round openings, bellcote at apex. RIGHT RETURN ELEVATION: 2 windows. LEFT RETURN ELEVATION: 2 windows, single storey piended roof vestry to left, base of stack to wallhead at right. REAR ELEVATION: 2 windows, louvred ventilator to attic, coped finial. INTERIOR: most pews removed, boarded dado, panelled gallery with cast-iron columns; 2-tier pulpit with Gothic reredos-type wall panel; decorative cast-iron balusters to gallery stairs; early 20th century stencilling; comb ceiling; chimneypieces in vestry. — The land for the church was provided by David Dixon of Hartree and Kilbucho, who came out of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland with Dr Thomas Chalmers in 1843. The church forms a coherent historical group with Kirkwood Old Manse, Stables and Former Beadle's Cottage.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.