South Dalziel Parish Church, Windmillhill Street, Motherwell

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 28/01/1971 Local Authority North Lanarkshire Planning Authority North Lanarkshire Burgh Motherwell And Wishaw NGR NS 75905 56263 Coordinates 275905, 656263 — 1789, enlarged 1860 with later alterations. classical church, aligned SW-NE, rectangular-plan, entrance tower with spire. Squared and tooled yellow sandstone. Base course and eaves course. Round-arched windows to sides and rear. SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Window to ground centre, pedimented gable above, oculus to tympanum. Flanking 2-storey bays with architraved entrances, panelled timber doors, replaced 1983, 8-pane sash and case windows to 2nd storey, outer bays and returns. BELLTOWER: tall single stage with quatrefoil fretwork parapet, corner pinnacles, octagonal spire with ball and rod finial. Tower subsiding towards SE. NE (REAR) ELEVATION: Tall paired trefoil windows to outer bays, central bay obscured by adjoining session house and vestry. NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3 gabled bays. Regular fenestration; architraved, semicircular arched, mullioned and transomed bipartite windows with short stringcourse and architraved oculi windows above. SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: mirror of NW. Predominantly leaded windows. Grey slates, lead flashing, coped skews. INTERIOR: galleried interior of nave; Panelled timber balustrade, supported by slender timber Tuscan columns. Later 19th century pews, altar and organ. Paired entrance doors to simple rectangular outer porch to SW end. 2 pointed arch windows to rear of gallery open onto porch. Protruding, NW-SE roof valleys to ceiling. Stained glass from late 1950s and 1960s to lower part of windows to rear and 1st bays of nave from rear. VESTRY AND SESSION HOUSE: later 19th century. 2-storey, 4-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled addition to rear of church. Harled. Regula

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.