Salvation Army Citadel, Keith Street, Hamilton

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 04/05/1993 Local Authority South Lanarkshire Planning Authority South Lanarkshire Burgh Hamilton NGR NS 72629 55511 Coordinates 272629, 655511 — Alexander Cullen, 1908. Single storey and basement, rectangular-plan, Romanesque-detailed former Primitive Methodist church, built on gusset site on falling ground. Stonecleaned, snecked bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings and red sandstone voussoirs alternating with cream sandstone in most windows and doorheads, snecked rubble with ashlar dressings to narrow lower bay at rear gable, modern grey tile roof. Paired round-headed window to side elevations in recessed panels, 3-light round-headed window, to W gable, mottle glass, leaded panes. Denitlled eaves course, flat-coped skews wtih kneelers at base. W GABLE: round-headed doorcase in single storey, gabletted entrance porch, chamfered bay to left: higher polygonal bay to right with 2-light windows to top; large window to upper level of main gable; bellcote to right gable; block finial. S ELEVATION: 4 bays to centre with paired windows, higher gabletted bay to left, recessed lower bay to right with paired windows. N ELEVATION: 4 bays to centre, paired square-headed windows to lower floor, round-headed to upper floor, higher gabletted bay to right with paired windows at 3 levels, lower bay to left with door at ground floor, paired windows to upper levels. E GABLE: various doors and windows, corniced stack. INTERIOR: not seen. BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: coped rubble to W with plain iron railings, similar railings to S and E.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.