Hall, Coatdyke Church, 275 Muiryhall Street, Coatbridge

Thomas Smith, 1897; hall opoened 1909. Rectangular-plan, aisleless Gothic church with belltower, and hall adjoining to rear. Stugged and snecked buff rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings, slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Base course of bull-faced snecked rubble to front elevation; moulded eaves course to side elevations. Paired 2-light gallery windows to front and tall lancets to sides and rear, each with hoodmoulds, paired windows to lateral stair gables. Gablet-coped skews with finial to front elevation, ashlar-coped elsewhere. FRONT ELEVATION: door to centre with replacement fanlight, splayed reveals and multiple-moulded pointed-arch head with hoodmould, gallery windows and vesica above, buttress and bipartite window to lateral gable at right; engaged tower to left, square-section to base, octagonal above with pointed-arch belfry openings and finialled stone spirelet.

SIDE ELEVATIONS: 5 windows, lateral gables to S with paired windows (door to W).

REAR ELEVATION: mostly masked by hall, 2 lancet windows and vesica to gable.

HALL: gabled hall in similar style adjoined to N gable.

INTERIOR: cast-iron columns with moulded capitals supporting panelled U-plan gallery and extending to form springing point for roof braces linked on the sides by segmental arches; original pews and dado; border-glazed cathedral glass, stained glass at (ecclesiastical) E end. BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low rubble boundary wall with decorative metal railings; 2 sets of gabletted ashlar gatepiers; later gatepiers and steps to front door.