Old Cathcart Parish Church and Churchyard, Carmunnock Road, Glasgow

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 15/12/1970 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 58726 60618 Coordinates 258726, 660618 — Churchyard containing ruined fragments of former parish church. Series of mainly 18th and 19th century stone monuments, including one by Alexander Thomson, and aisles (mausolea), including Brown of Langside aisle which may be by Robert Adam. Enclosed by ashlar-coped rubble-built boundary walls with gateways to both Carmunnock Road and to Kirkmailung Road, later gateway with 18th century massive square rusticated ashlar piers with cast-iron lamp brackets; wrought-iron gates. Enclosrues twice extended to S in 19th century, at lower levels. CHURCH: probably by James Dempster, 1830-31, superceded by present church (completed 1929) on nearby side outwith churchyard. Only tower (roofless) and W gable now survive. Gothic with hood-moulded pointed-arched openings, some traceried, with wide-splayed ingoes - glazing destroyed; tower has 3 diminishing stages and diagonal buttresses, these pinnacled above crenellated parapets. Stugged ashlar with polished dressings. Blocked north-facing door has mask label-stops, corresponding South-facing opening contains surviving upper part of timber panel with painted inscription. AISLES: (A) "The burial place of Thomas Brown of Langside and his family 1782" (inscribed), in the style of Robert Adam. Neo-classical; square-plan, with identical elevations each composed with wall-planes progressively recessed towards centre, and each having a round-arched opening (blind, except at S) set in a recessed margin, patera in spandrels, angle pilaster strips; inscription panel to S and bases of broken bases over angles. Polished yellow ashlar. Modern wrought-iron gate. Roofless (perhaps a dome or pyramidal roof

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.