Chryston Parish Church, Main Street, Chryston

Chryston Parish Church, built in 1878 by David Thomson & Robert Turnbull, is a Gothic-style church of broad plan. A 2003 addition by Davis Duncan Architects links the church to a substantial two-storey hall to the northwest. The church is constructed of snecked and tooled squared rubble, with coursed rubble to the north, and ashlar dressings. A base course and a string course run along the entrance elevation. The church is characterised by a wallhead facing Main Street (south) and a prominent square-plan tower at the southwest angle.

Architecturally, the west elevation is a gable end featuring a central, deeply moulded gothic arched doorway with plain stiff-leaf columnettes and a head-stopped hoodmould. Five steps lead to the double-leaf, timber boarded doors with decorative ironwork hinges, set within a splayed porch with a pitched roof and carved crucifix finial. Flanking the porch are gothic arched windows with chamfered openings. Above the entrance is a geometric tracery window set within a label-stopped hoodmould. To the left is an apsidal, two-storey stair tower, with the church hall linking to it. To the right is a four-stage tower with a plain first stage containing a small, blocked circular light (blocked in 2003). The second stage has a shouldered design incorporating a hoodmoulded lancet window; the third stage a small lancet window with a round clock face above, separated by a projecting ledge; and the fourth stage a bellcote with plate-traceried louvered openings. The tower is topped with a broach stone spire and decorative cast-iron finial. A string course connects the towers and main elevation, stepping above the central porch.

The south (street) elevation has six bays (arranged 1-4-1), with a two-bay single-storey vestry and session house on the far right. The tower on the left is similar to that on the west elevation, with the exception of a pointed-arched, chamfered doorway and a blind trefoil carving within the tympanum of the first stage. Four bipartite, pointed-segmental arched ground floor windows are interspersed with gothic arched windows in breaking eaves gabled dormers, which are separated by three shouldered buttresses added in 1987 to reinforce bulging walls. A single pointed arched window is recessed to the right-hand bay. A door and bipartite windows are present in the single-storey vestry and session house on the far right.

Inside, the church features a U-plan gallery and a hammerbeam roof.