Parish Church, Main Street, Carnwath

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 21/05/1980 Supplementary Information Updated 20/11/2019 Local Authority South Lanarkshire Planning Authority South Lanarkshire Parish Carnwath NGR NS 97557 46417 Coordinates 297557, 646417 — David Bryce, 1865-9. Roughly rectangular-plan, buttressed, Scots Baronial church. Elaborate north entrance elevation to street with paired gables, gabled portico entrance porch and a 4-stage clock tower and spire to the north east corner. 4-window south elevation with pointed arched traceried windows to central bays and rectangular windows under large circular windows to outer bays. Stepped, shouldered buttresses to building corners with foliate detailed pointed caps. Pointed arched traceried windows with hoodmoulds. Plain diamond pane glazing, boarded timber doors with decorative cast-iron strap hinges. Decorative shaped stone skews and carved stone finials to gables of graded grey slate roof. INTERIOR: seen 2013. The church has a fine and intact later 19th century interior decorative scheme with an unusual layout for worship. Symmetrical paired stairs in the entrance lobby leading to a deep U-plan balcony with sectioned pews on 8 round cast-iron columns around three sides of the church and facing a tall timber pulpit with decorative canopy to the centre of the south wall. Fine interior woodwork details throughout including a finely detailed timber roof structure with turned drop detailing and timber boarded ceiling. Timber box pews with the names of local farming families painted onto the pew ends, panelled balcony front and 6-panel doors. Timber panelling to dado height with plain plastered walls over. — Carnwath Parish Church is a good example of a mid to later 19th century Scots Baronial style parish church which has fine stone detailing and which was desi

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.