Longriggend And Meadowfield Church, Main Street, Caldercruix is a Grade C listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 April 1993. Church.
Longriggend And Meadowfield Church, Main Street, Caldercruix
- WRENN ID
- second-courtyard-quill
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Airdrie and Shotts MP: Kenneth Stevenson (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1993
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 818 676
- Coordinates
- 55.88759, -3.89029
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Longriggend and Meadowfield Church, built in 1890 by A McGregor Mitchell, is a rectangular-plan Gothic church located on Main Street in Caldercruix. The church is constructed from snecked cream sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a plain red tile roof. It has a base course, a moulded eaves course, and ashlar-coped skews with skewputts. The nave is buttressed, and the gable includes a squat three-stage tower at the southwest angle. The tower has three-light louvered belfry apertures on the third stage facing south and west, and is topped with crowstepped pediments at the parapet, which includes a blocked aperture and finialled octagonal pinnacles at the corners. The windows are pointed, with trefoil-headed designs on the ground floor front elevation and in the belfry apertures.
On the south gable, there is a door to the tower on the left, featuring a pointed-arch doorcase with multiple moulding at the head and a circular opening above. The second stage of the tower is blank and narrow, while the third stage has belfry apertures. The central bay is slightly advanced to the right and contains a three-light window on the ground floor, a geometric-traceried window for the gallery, and a vesica above with a Celtic-cross finial. To the right, there is a slightly recessed bay with a two-light window.
The east elevation has a pointed-arch doorway within a pedimented doorpiece on the left and five windows to the right. The west elevation features the tower on the right, with a window on the first stage and a narrow window above, along with belfry apertures on the third stage; there are five windows to the left. The north gable includes a single-storey vestry.
The interior has not been seen. The church is accompanied by a gatepier and boundary wall, which consists of two capped and panelled gatepiers and a coped snecked rubble boundary wall.
Local climate
Longriggend And Meadowfield Church, Main Street, Caldercruix sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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