Chapelhall Parish Church, Russell Street, Chapelhall

1857; hall 1882; further hall 1954. T-plan, Gothic-detailed church with tower and truncated spire. Stugged sandstone rubble of various colours, ashlar dressings, slate roof in diminishing courses. Paired lancet windows with lying-pane glazing and louvred trefoil-headed ventilators to N, S and E, trefoil-headed windows to ground floor and 3-light pointed gallery window to W gable, trefoil ventilator to roofspace; ashlar-coped skews with bracketted skewputts, fleur-de-lis finials to N, S and W gables, capped apex at Egable; remains of ridge ventilator.

S ELEVATION: gabled porch at left re-enrant with step-chamfered pointed doorcase, hoodmould, boarded door with multi-pane fanlight; buttressed tower to right with quatrefoil

window to 1st stage, paired trefoil-headed windows and square-headed window with hoodmould to 2nd stage, octagonal 3rd stage with alternate trefoil-headed louvred openings alternating with oculi, finialled spirelet; gable to right with paired lancets and ventilator.

E ELEVATION: gable to centre with paired lancets and ventilator, door to slightly recessed bay at left with flat ogival-headed and chamfered doorcase; brick-built hall (1882) with piended slate roof advanced from slightly recessed bay at right.

W ELEVATION: gable to centre with 3 windows to ground floor, gallery windows and roof ventilator above; windows to side elevation of entrance porch at right; hall (1954) to left.

N ELEVATION: gable to centre with paired lancets and roof ventilator, hall (1954) advanced from recessed bay at right, hall (1882) to left.

INTERIOR: panelled gallery to W end supported on 2 cast-iron columns; plain plaster ceiling with exposed braces and tie beams; wood-grained boarded dado, pews (some with doors) and pulpit; marble font; various memorials, including war

memorial in porch and memorials to William Roberton of Laughope and the Rev Alexander Stewart, first minister of the church.