Carmunnock Parish Church, Kirk Road, Glasgow

Rebuilt 1762-7, repairs 1838-40. T-plan parish church,

orientated E-W suggesting possible use of pre-

reformation site and perhaps also of some fabric. BODY OF

CHURCH is rubble-built - coursed and squared in areas

(eg at N end of W gable); blocks mostly diagonally

droved; ashlar dressings; square and round-headed

openings (arched window-heads not original); straight

forestair on each gable, stone-built porch at head

of each; handsome 18th century bellcote over projecting

breast on E gable. Skews with moulded skewputts. Main N

wall is shallow outset central with gabled low circa

1819 vestry adjoining. Stuart of Castlemilk family AISLE

central on S wall and built mid/later 18th century;

vault, with loft over; mainly diagonally droved

(horizontally droved W wall) and with raised margins,

keystoned flat-lintelled doorways; cill band at loft,

moulded skewputts, skew end moulding run horizontally

below apex stack; main cornice; scale-and-platt

forestair to loft door in E re-entrant angle; central

doorway to vault on S gable. Vault walls lined with

plain marble panels late 19th/early 20th century; jack-

arched ceiling and wrought-iron gate presumably

contemporary.

INTERIOR: mainly 19th century, gallery with panelled

front at either end supported on pair cast-iron columns

each also with stone corbel set at S end, at window

ingoe; aisle gallery now used as organ loft with room

behind; octagonal pulpit set central on N wall in

shallow outset; 4 leaded windows behind pulpit, by

Norman Macleod MacDougall, a World War 1 memorial.

CHURCHYARD: enclosed mainly by rubble-built walls,

corniced (? 1760s gatepiers to Kirk Road with domed

caps; headstones and table tombs mainly 18th-19th

centuries; burial place of Norman Macleod MacDougall and

of John Lawson, artists.

WATCH HOUSE beside gate; small and gabled, door on N

flank; rubble, with ashlar dressings, slate roof;

contains painted notice of instructions for watch, 1828.

1648 bell now lost.