North Parish Church, Kirk Road, Cambusnethan

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 30/03/2001 Local Authority North Lanarkshire Planning Authority North Lanarkshire Burgh Motherwell And Wishaw NGR NS 80771 55394 Coordinates 280771, 655394 — John Forrester Steel, 1902. Gabled gothic church, cruciform-plan, square 3-stage belltower and round tower. Red bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar margins. Plate tracery, corbelled eaves course. N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: gabled clasped buttresses; three square windows to ground; large 5-light pointed-arch window to gallery, double chamfered reveal, stone mullions, lintel course, carved relief of flushwork Tree of Life flanked by quatrefoils to gablehead, blind arcading to gablet skewputts, foliate stone finial. S (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled, large quatrefoil window to centre; lower portion obscured by abutting church offices. E (SIDE) ELEVATION: advanced gable of transept to left, stepped 3-light window to centre, blank returns; narrow blank bay of chancel to left; 5-bay regularly fenestrated nave to right, Y-tracery windows, corbelled eaves course. W (SIDE) ELEVATION: mirror of E except tower abutting 2nd-bay from left and 3rd bay blank. TOWERS: 3-stage square tower, gabled clasped buttresses, rectangular door to centre N, roll-moulded to reveal, small square window to 2nd-stage; dividing cornice between 2nd-stage and 3rd stage, battering to squared corner piers with chamfered panels and stone caps, round-arched tripartite openings to belfry, castellated parapet; recessed and truncated slated spire, lead finial. 2-stage stair round tower abutting tower to W; staggered arrow slit windows, corbelled eaves course, slated conical roof, lead finial. Leaded square-pane windows. Graded grey slates, decorative ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: gallery to N end of nave, b

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.