Dunbeth United Presbyterian Church, Weir Street, Coatbridge

Dunbeth United Presbyterian Church, located on Weir Street in Coatbridge, was designed by Robert Baldie in 1872, with a hall added by Baldwin and Tennant in 1885. This Gothic-style church features a hall-plan layout, complete with a tower and spire. The exterior is constructed of stugged and snecked cream sandstone rubble, with polished and stugged ashlar dressings and a grey slate roof. The building has a base course and a wallhead course, with buttressed front and side elevations. The windows are primarily 2-light pointed designs with chamfered jambs and continuous hoodmoulds on the side elevations. The front elevation also features a continuous hoodmould at the ground floor, a diaper-work frieze at the first floor, and a striking 5-light geometric-traceried gallery window. The skews are ashlar coped, with gabletted skewputts, and the bell-cast roof includes three large, gabled, louvered lucarnes on each pitch.

On the front (west) elevation, there is a central gable. The entrance consists of a two-leaf central door topped by a large trefoil-headed fanlight and a multiple-moulded pointed doorcase with nook shafts, flanked by lancet windows. This entrance is approached by steps that are bordered by a pierced balustrade with cast-iron capped polygonal piers, with a gallery window above. To the right, there is a lateral-gabled stair bay featuring a quatrefoil motif at the ground floor and three trefoil-headed windows at the upper level. The tower on the left has a quatrefoil motif at the ground floor and a gable at the first floor with a Y-traceried window, flanked by angle buttresses that terminate in octagonal drums with finialled conical caps. The octagonal spire rises from a deep drum, featuring louvered belfry apertures and finialled angle buttresses, with a small platform at the tip of the spire adorned with a decorative weathercock.

The northeast elevation mirrors the front elevation with the tower on the right, which has a moulded pointed-arch doorcase, a window, and a gable at the first floor. There are five bays to the left with windows, and the gable of the hall is located at the far left, featuring a 3-light pointed window flanked by lancets.

On the southeast elevation, the stair gable is slightly advanced to the left and includes a window, with five bays to the right that also contain windows. The hall is advanced to the far right, featuring a chimney gable at the center and a canted bay on the left return, along with a single-storey modern addition to the left re-entrant.

The east elevation has an organ chamber that is advanced from the gable, though it is mostly obscured by the hall. The interior was not observed. Surrounding the property is a coped rubble boundary wall to the south and east.