New Lanark Church, New Lanark Road, New Lanark

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 05/08/1974 Local Authority South Lanarkshire Planning Authority South Lanarkshire Burgh Lanark NGR NS 88014 42650 Coordinates 288014, 642650 — Thomas Carlaw, 1898-99. Single storey, 4-bay, rectangular-plan, simple Gothic church with W gable belfry and porch adjoining W gable, at right angles to main axis of church. Snecked pink sandstone with polished yellow ashlar dressings. Base course, eaves course. Long and short quoins. Regular fenestration to N & S elevations with roll-moulded hoodmoulds and tabbed, chamfered margins. 2-leaf timber-boarded door to gabled lobby-porch. Cross finial to E gable. Mainly square-pane leaded glazing. Ashlar-coped skews with gableted bracketed skewputts; skews to porch with chamfered edges. Grey slates. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: simple late 19th century interior. Timber-boarded panelling to dado height. Braced timber roof to main hall with herringbone-pattern boards between trusses. Timber altar rail with ball finials. Commemorative plaque. 4-panelled timber doors. GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: church raised above street level on terrace with 4 steps up at gateway (gate missing). Stop-chamfered gatepiers with gothic mouldings and gableted caps. Random rubble boundary walls with chamfered cope and spear-headed wrought-iron railings. — Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such (since 1971). It was sold by the Church of Scotland to the New Lanark Association Ltd in 1974 and now serves as a community hall. The church occupies a very prominent position at the bottom of the main footpath entering New Lanark. Though simple in design the detailing of the church is good both inside and out and reflects the training and early years of the architect Thomas Carlaw. Carlaw was born in 1851 and trained a

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.