Livingstone Memorial Church, Glasgow Road, Blantyre

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/05/1994 Local Authority South Lanarkshire Planning Authority South Lanarkshire Parish Blantyre NGR NS 68704 57770 Coordinates 268704, 657770 — John McKissack and William Gardner Rowan, 1880-2; hall, 1894; statue of David Livingstone, Kellock Brown, 1913; manse, 1929. Rectangular-plan, Gothic-style church with tower and spirelet. Stugged cream sandstone coursers, ashlar dressings, slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles. Base course, string course at front elevation, eaves course; lancet windows with chamfered jambs, hoodmoulds at front elevation, tower and stair gable; ashlar-coped skews. Tower; 5-stage tower, octagonal 6th stage, angle buttresses. FRONT ELEVATION: 2-leaf door to centre with multiple-moulded pointed doorhead flanked by lancet windows with continuous hoodmould, 3-light gallery window above, quatrefoil motif at gable, celtic cross finial; window to lateral-gabled stair bay at right; tower to left, cast-iron statue of David Livingstone in niche at 2nd stage (inscription panel below at 1st stage), tall bipartite belfry openings to 4th stage at each elevation, 4 pedimented clock faces to 5th stage with pinnacled octagonal angles, set-back octagonal drum at 6th stage with trefoil-headed openings and parapet with obelisks at angles, finialled spirelet. W ELEVATION: 5 lancet windows to left, tower to right. E ELEVATION: 5 lancet windows to right, door and window to stair gable at left. N GABLE: organ chamber advanced to centre with 3-light stepped window, masked at ground floor with single storey vestry. INTERIOR: tall cast-iron columns with foleate plaster capitals to pointed arches at aisles; waggon roof with stencilled decoration representing land, sea and sky; imposing timber organ screen, pulpit, and choir rails, communion seat with lin

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.