Kirkmuirhill Parish Church, Carlisle Road, Kirkmuirhill

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 02/08/2001 Local Authority South Lanarkshire Planning Authority South Lanarkshire Parish Lesmahagow NGR NS 79958 42915 Coordinates 279958, 642915 — Robert Baldie, 1868. Rectangular-plan Early English Gothic church. Rear church hall, circa 1899. Chamfered surrounds to windows and doors. Base course; eaves course. Rendered to NW and SW; tooled stone to SE and NE. NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central pointed-arch door; roll-mouldings to pointed-arch door surround. Small single flanking lancet windows; continuous hoodmould to windows and door. Large tripartite lancet window above; hoodmould. Flanking full length offset buttresses. Lancet window to right; hoodmould with floral stop; buttress to far right. Square-plan tower to left; offset angle buttresses. 1st stage bipartite window. Tall, bipartite lancet window above. Lucarnes in each face of tall broach spire. NE ELEVATION: tall, bipartite lancet window to tower at 2nd stage. Offset angle buttresses to tower; 1st stage not seen. 5 tall lancet windows regularly spaced to left of tower. Single buttress to left of each window. SE ELEVATION: partially obscured by hall. 2 lancet stained glass windows. SW ELEVATION: bipartite lancet window to left; Y-tracery window above; hoodmould; flanking buttresses. 5 tall lancet windows to right; buttress to right of each window. Lattice glazing to windows. Timber boarded 2-leaf door; decorative metal hinges. Pitched slate roof; kneelers. Celtic cross finial to NW and SE gable apex. Stone spire; ball and spike finial. INTERIOR: 1st and 2nd World War memorial in vestibule; pilastered and corniced timber panel; bronze plaque inscribed with names of congregation or district members associated with the church, who died during the wars. Pointed-arch door leads into church; ce

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.