St Ninian's Church, Lamington

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/01/1971 Local Authority South Lanarkshire Planning Authority South Lanarkshire Parish Lamington And Wandel NGR NS 97816 30937 Coordinates 297816, 630937 — 1721 with possible earlier fabric, incorporating 12th century Norman doorway. Renovated 1828 and circa 1880. 4-bay, rectangular-plan church with pointed-arched windows to sides and doorways to gable ends with prominent gabled stone bellcote and sited within rare circular graveyard enclosure. Stone cross to S gable apex. Carved WWI Memorial within blocked 12th century doorway with chevron carved voussoirs. Round-arched, gabled stone bellcote with dentilled eaves and round-arched canopy on recessed pillars. Margined, diamond-pane leaded windows with coloured glazing. Slate roof with circular ridge ventilators, ashlar coped skews. Cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers. INTERIOR: good, plain-rendered, interior decorative scheme with timber-panelled balcony to E end on slender cast-iron columns and later timber-panelled pulpit to W. Good timber-boarded, combed ceiling with decorative cast-iron ventilator grilles. Brass light fittings and hinged ventilators hoods to side walls. Panelled pointed arch doors. 'Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness' painted in decorative scroll over pulpit. Large classical wall monument to Lady Ross Baillie. GRAVEYARD; BOUNDARY WALLS AND HEADSTONES: rare, circular-plan rubble walls with curved cappings retain higher ground to interior of graveyard. Mostly 19th century headstones, some good examples of 18th century headstones, with some possibly even earlier examples. — Lamington Church is a good example of a small Post-Reformation rectangular church surviving in its original plan form and prominently sited within a rare raised circular graveyard with so

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.