St Mungo's Church, St Mungo's Road, Cumbernauld

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 21/03/2000 Local Authority North Lanarkshire Planning Authority North Lanarkshire Burgh Cumbernauld NGR NS 75665 74486 Coordinates 275665, 674486 — Alan Reiach, 1963-1964. Single storey, square-plan pyramidal church with halls adjoining to SW. Facing bricks. Deep overhanging boarded timber eaves to church supported by steel girder columns; continuous horizontal band of clerestory windows below eaves to church. CHURCH: SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; flat-roofed porch advanced to centre, 2 steps to 2-leaf timber door, flanked to left and right by 3-light glazed panels, single windows to left and right returns. NE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; boarded timber door reached by ramp off-centre to right. NW ELEVATION: blank except clerestory windows (see above). SW ELEVATION: blank, except clerestory windows (see above); halls adjoining to centre (see below). Predominantly metal-framed windows. Copper pyramidal roof, glazed to stepped-back apex; copper steeply-pitched pyramidal belfry above, on 4 stilts, timber underside. INTERIOR: brick lined nave with glazed timber doors; tiled and boarded timber floor; timber pews arranged at angles around central timber pulpit, font, lectern and communion table on raised plinth; boarded timber lining to tall pyramidal roof, timber grid to apex with rooflights and artificial lighting. HALLS: Single storey, T-plan church halls advanced from centre of SE Elevation of church. SE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; glazed timber door to right, flanked to left by long glazed corridor; kitchen and lavatory wing advanced to left, windows to right return with doorway stepped-forward to centre, 2-leaf timber door flanked by glazed panels; main hall stepped up and back to outer left, horizontal band of windows below roofline. NE ELEVATIO

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.