Holy Family Roman Catholic Church, Calder Road and Hope Street, Mossend

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/08/2005 Local Authority North Lanarkshire Planning Authority North Lanarkshire Parish Bothwell NGR NS 74358 60240 Coordinates 274358, 660240 — Pugin and Pugin, 1884; church hall 1868. Rectangular-plan Gothic parish church with cusped windows, lean-to side aisles, truncated tower and semi-octagonal baptistery. Roughly square-plan presbytery with shouldered, mullioned windows and link corridor to W of church. 1868 L-plan church hall to N of church comprising former presbytery, church and school. CHURCH: 6-bay nave with lean-to side aisles to N and S; slightly lower chancel outshot to W; principal entrance to E gable with truncated tower to left and semi-octagonal baptistery to right. Coursed bull-faced cream sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course, eaves course. Nave bays divided by shouldered buttresses. 3- light trefoil-headed windows to side aisles; 3 quatrefoil clerestory lights to each bay of nave. 2 trefoil-headed lights to each side of chancel; large hoodmoulded rose window to chancel gable composed of cinquefoil lights with row of 5 quatrefoil lights below. 2 2-leaf timber-boarded entrance doors with strap hinges in hood-moulded pointed arch architraves with traceried lights to tympanums; small window between doors. Hoodmoulded, traceried, pointed arch window above with trefoil-headed lights flanking to each side. Truncated tower to left with 2-stage semi-hexagonal stair tower advanced at corner. Piend-roofed baptistery advanced at left corner with pointed-arch windows. Diamond-pane lights with some stained glass. Ashlar-coped skews with gableted ends, bracketed skewputts and Latin Cross finials. Graded grey slate with decorative ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: narthex with terracotta tiled floor; half-glaze

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.