Dalziel North Parish Church, 78 Muir Street, Motherwell

Dalziel North Parish Church

Henry F Kerr designed this church in 1916. It is a 2-storey, square-plan building with a shallow domed Byzantine-inspired design. A bell tower rises at the northwest corner, and a raised portico projects from the west elevation. The church is built in squared and tooled yellow sandstone, bull-faced to the west elevation and bell tower, with ashlar margins around openings. The building features a base course, narrow eaves course, and projecting modillioned cornice, with predominantly semicircular arch windows throughout.

The principal west elevation consists of a broad 2-leaf door at the centre of a 3-bay block, flanked by Ionic columns supporting an entablature with a shouldered segmentally-arched pediment. The flanking double bays contain small semicircular-arched windows. Quadrant arcades occupy the returns, with steps leading to columns supporting an entablature with Byzantine foliate capitals. The recessed 2nd storey features a tripartite window at the centre with corbelled engaged columns to the mullions, flanking pilasters, and an entablature supporting a dentil moulded pediment that breaks the eaves. A battered 2-stage square-plan stair tower stands at the southwest corner, with an oculus to the 2nd stage and a bipartite semicircular arch window to the right return.

The 5-stage bell tower to the northwest corner contains a door to the right return of the 1st stage, a small window to the return of the 2nd stage, bipartite windows to the 3rd stage, and large bipartite windows to the 4th stage. A rectangular belfry opening rises to the 5th stage, supported by squat columns and an entablature, with a dentil moulded projecting cornice. The tower is crowned by a semicircular dome with a cross finial.

The rear east elevation is 2-storey, featuring an advanced gabled bay to the centre, a small lean-to addition to the right return, and a single storey-piended advanced bay to the left return, with single windows to the outer bays. The north side elevation has a gabled entrance porch to the centre left, flanking windows, a tripartite window to the far right, and the bell tower to the northwest corner. The south side elevation mirrors this arrangement with a gabled entrance porch to the centre right, flanking windows, a tripartite window to the far left, and the stair tower to the southwest corner.

Windows throughout are predominantly plate glass sash and case type. Eight fixed 6-pane oculi light the dome. The roof is covered in grey slates with lead flashing and tarred felt-roofing to the dome. Cast-iron rainwater goods complete the exterior.

The interior is square and open-plan, with a central dome supported on 8 columns featuring Byzantine foliate capitals. An upper floor has been installed within the original double-height crossing.

Church Hall

Robert Harvie designed the Church Hall in 1907. It is a 2-storey, 7-bay rectangular structure functioning as a classical hall and offices with a piended roof. Built in squared and snecked yellow sandstone with ashlar margins and ashlar dressing to the outer left bay, it features a base course, continuous cill course to ground and 1st floor windows, and a projecting cornice. Fenestration is regular and symmetrical about a central small nepus gable. A semicircular arched door occupies the 2nd bay from the outer right, with bipartite windows to the central and outer bays.

A slightly advanced pedimented bay projects from the outer left, with projecting quoins and an architraved door at the centre, a letterbox fanlight above, and flanking narrow windows. A semicircular window with blocked architrave and projecting keystone appears to the side. Harled blind gable ends enclose a large single storey gabled hall adjoining to the rear, with Diocletian windows set in the gable ends.

Manse

The Manse dates to the mid 19th century. It is a 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular structure with a symmetrical gabled plan. Built in squared and tooled sandstone coursers, it displays a base course, eaves course, cornice and blocking course, with a projecting cornice over the central door. Architraved margins frame the openings, with regular fenestration except for a bipartite window to the ground floor right and irregular fenestration to the rear. A 2-storey stair tower and single storey piended addition adjoin to the southeast. Grey slates cover the roof, and 4-pane PVCu sash and case effect windows have been installed. Coped gable stacks and cast-iron rainwater goods complete the design.

Boundary Wall

A squared and tooled sandstone coursers boundary wall with saddleback coping encloses the site.