Trinity Parish Church, Union Street, Larkhall

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 30/03/1998 Local Authority South Lanarkshire Planning Authority South Lanarkshire Parish Dalserf NGR NS 76164 51279 Coordinates 276164, 651279 — Alexander Cullen, circa 1900. Gable ended, galleried Latin-cross plan stylised gothic church with 3-stage square-plan tower to outer right and 2-storey stair projection to outer left. Bull-faced cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Base course; string course below main gable window; string course below battlements to stair projection. Pointed-arched openings; chamfered and moulded reveals; hoodmoulds; stepped and gabletted angle buttresses. Modern, rectangular-plan church hall sited to right (SE) of church with linking section from E transept. E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central, wide moulded doorpiece with pointed-arch spanning 2 flat ogee-arched doorways; blind geometric tracery to tympanum; 2 pairs of 2-leaf timber panelled doors; 2 small deep-set windows flanking; 5-light curvilinear traceried window with narrow lights flanking to gable above; deep-set circular light to gable apex. 2 narrow windows, set high to stair projection to left; coped battlements. TOWER: diagonal stepped angle buttresses; string courses dividing stages; chamfered pointed-arched openings with hoodmoulds. Square-headed window at 1st stage; single plate traceried window at 2nd stage with inscribed panel above, ?MEMORIAL STONE LAID BY MJCM STEVEN ESQ, 1899?; paired louvered openings at 3rd stage; battlemented parapet. N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 6-bay, grouped 3-1-1-1. Advanced gabled transept to centre with 3-light traceried window. Window, divided by buttresses in each bay to left. Recessed, pointed-arched doorway below battlemented parapet in bay to right of centre; 2-leaf timber panelled door with ?traceried? fanlight. 3-light

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.