Hamilton Memorial Church, Glasgow Road, Clydebank

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 12/05/2003 Local Authority West Dunbartonshire Planning Authority West Dunbartonshire Burgh Clydebank NGR NS 50415 69332 Coordinates 250415, 669332 — Dated 1884. Neo-Norman roughly rectangular-plan single nave church with gable front to road and landmark square-plan tower and spire to NE angle; church abutting earlier 20th century single storey hall to SE. Snecked and tooled square rubble; ashlar dressings to main entrance; string courses to principal elevation. Tall round-arched windows, plate tracery and multifoil window to principal elevation; carved and moulded round-arched porch; prominent attenuated tower with memorial inscription, plate tracery, and square-plan spire. NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central round-arched, double chamfered porch; plain 2-leaf timber boarded doors; vine leaf carved lintel with central carving of bible set in cartouche; flanking plain shafts with Ionic capitals; arched fanlight (now blocked); roll moulded hoodmold. Round-arched plate tracery window with three round-arched lights and 8-part circle window above set within hoodmould; small crucifix finial to gable apex; flanking full-height buttresses. 4-stage tower and pyramidal spire to left; plain 1st stage; 2nd stage with bracketed, round-arched pedimented and pilastered memorial plaque with cartouche inset with 3 cinquefoils (part of Hamilton coat of arms), carved foliage to pediment, inscribed 'HAMILTON / MEMORIAL / CHURCH / FOUNDATION STONE / OF THIS CHURCH / WAS LAID BY / MRS BRUCE/ FOR / MISS HAMILTON / ON 2? OF FEBRUARY / 1884'; arrow slits at 3rd stage; 4th stage bellcote with linked bipartite tracery openings, keystone and blind carved spandrels above; pyramidal stone spire with angle lucarnes, plate traceried openings, angle spouts, arcaded gallery to base,

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.