Thornlie Parish Church, West Thornlie Street, Wishaw

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 19/12/2000 Local Authority North Lanarkshire Planning Authority North Lanarkshire Burgh Motherwell And Wishaw NGR NS 79492 54853 Coordinates 279492, 654853 — CHURCH: David Thomson, 1876. Gothic church on corner site, cruciform-plan, gabled, square 3-stage tower with broach spire to SE corner and round 2-stage tower set-back from SW corner, gabled porch. Squared yellow sandstone coursers with ashlar margins; base course, gallery-height string course, set-back buttresses with sawtooth coping, predominantly lancet openings with hoodmoulds. SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stone steps to gabled porch with kneelers to centre, double-chamfered pointed entrance arch, engaged supporting columns with stiff-leaf capitals, hoodmoulds with mask stops, quatrefoil to crossgable, crocketted stone finial to apex of gable; small trefoiled lancets to flanking bays; large 5-light window with geometric tracery to crossgable, cross finial. TOWER: square tower to right; staggered small plain cusped lancets to 1st stage; window to 2nd stage with elongated gablet hoodmould below paired small cusped windows with oversized hoodmould, cill course; 5-light pointed arch stone-mullioned opening to belfry with cill course, corbelled cornice; octagonal broach spire with gabled lucarnes. Squat round tower to left angle; double chamfered lancet arch door to SW, 4 regularly fenestrated cusped lancets to 2nd stage, continuous hoodmould cill course, corbelled cornice, conical roof. NE (REAR) ELEVATION: squared and snecked rubble; large quadripartite window to centre, geometric flatwork, stone mullions. SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: advanced gabled transept, 3 plain lancets to ground; large hood moulded plate tracery window of paired bipartites and multifoil, quatrefoil to cross gable. Regularly fenes

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.