St Mary's Rc Church, Hozier Street, Coatbridge

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 15/12/2003 Local Authority North Lanarkshire Planning Authority North Lanarkshire Burgh Coatbridge NGR NS 73544 64019 Coordinates 273544, 664019 — Pugin and Pugin, 1896. Gothic, basilican-plan church with pentice-roofed aisles (with projecting pitched roof confessional sections to SE and SW); buttressed and pitched chancel to N; presbytery linked to NW via small sacristy. Bull-faced sandstone coursers; sandstone ashlar dressings; splayed base course; ashlar band courses. 3 hoodmoulded pointed arched reticulated windows to S (principal elevation) stepped above slightly projecting pitched roof masonry porch; flanking hoodmoulded pointed-segmental-arched aisles windows. Segmental-arched aisles windows to E and W; small paired clerestory windows. Reticulated circular N window set in larger pointed arched window. Gablet skewputts. Plain Tudor-Gothic, 2-storey, irregular-plan presbytery with long canted section to N (rear) and small sacristy to W linking to church: transomed and mullioned bipartite windows. Later 19th century single storey, L-plan hall (former school) to E of site. CHURCH: S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: pitched-roof masonry porch with hoodmoulded doorway, timber double-leaf doors; small flanking traceried windows; 3 hoodmoulded pointed windows with mouchette tracery; small hoodmoulded pointed traceried window to gablehead; masonry cross finial to gable apex; square-plan buttresses flanking central section. Pointed-segmental-arched reticulated windows to flanking aisles terminated by low buttresses. E ELEVATION: 9 bays (arranged 7-2). Moulded doorway with hoodmoulded pointed traceriered masonry fanlight to far left; advanced pitched roof section (confessional aisle) to penultimate bay left with segmental arched reticulated window flanked by lanc

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.