West Parish Church and Church House/Hall, Burnbank Road, Hamilton

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 19/09/1979 Local Authority South Lanarkshire Planning Authority South Lanarkshire Burgh Hamilton NGR NS 71164 55837 Coordinates 271164, 655837 — 1880 John Hutchison (Glasgow). 13th. century Gothic style. Five aisleless bays and shallow transepts shallow 'sanctuary' organ chamber and link to hall at right angles, snecked stugged rubble with ashlar dressings. West gable has gabled doorway of two orders of shafts, plain tympanum, arcaded spandrel areas flanking gable; flanking side lights 3-light window above with geometrical tracery, and empty niche in apex. South west square tower with gabled south door, angle buttresses, and octagonal pinnacles, broach with clock faces in shafted lucarnes to octagonal belfry stage of single pedimented lights with shafted angles, octagonal spire with weathervane, angle buttresses with octagonal pinnacles and apsed gallery stair at north west. Flanks buttressed with 2-light windows. Shallow transept 3- light windows all with simple geometrical tracery. Low link to hall/Church House. Door, 3-light, hall gable 3 stepped lancets with overarch. Steep pitched slated roofs with skewputts. Finials and gablet ventilators. Church House single-storey and attic, gablet to door and bipartites on left. Low enclosure wall with gablet gatepiers. Interior galleried at west end, hammerbeam roof, gothic organ case behind central pulpit in 'chancel arch' with single order of shafts. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Opened 1882.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.