Old Parish Church, Main Street, Wishaw

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 19/12/2000 Local Authority North Lanarkshire Planning Authority North Lanarkshire Burgh Motherwell And Wishaw NGR NS 79550 55212 Coordinates 279550, 655212 — Possibly by Thomas Burns, 1840 with additions 1874, 1891, 1931. Plain Venetian gothic church. Rectangular-plan, aligned NE-SW, 3-stage entrance tower to centre with stone spire. Yellow/pink ashlar sandstone. Hoodmoulded semicircular openings, chamfered reveals, windows with bipartite Venetian tracery; battered base course, continuous cill course and projecting cornice to eaves course. SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay, symmetrical, advanced bay of entrance tower to centre being engaged clock-tower; door with fanlight to centre, rolled moulding to reveal, string course cornice below window, semicircular arch arcaded top stage, terminating in Lombard frieze, projecting cornice; cast-iron brattishing to blocking course and stone obelisk finials to corners framing spire, cross finial to spire. Clock faces on projecting pedimented and corbelled timber cases. Shouldered wallhead to flanking bays, with windows slightly lower than central window. Recessed wallplane framing . NE (REAR) ELEVATION: 19th century addition obscured by modern additions. SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: 5-bay, symmetrical, regular fenestration, rectangular windows to ground, door to far left bay, semicircular arched to upper storey. NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: mirror of SE. Leaded glass. Grey slates and lead ridges, cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: flanking stairs to gallery at sides, stained glass depicting Tree of Life to centre with flanking doors with fanlights to nave. Galleried nave, full-height semicircular arch to chancel. Chancel, 1874, two stained large stained glass to rear wall depicting saints dedication to base in memorial to Lo

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.