St Mungo's Church, St Mungo's Road, Cumbernauld

Alan Reiach, 1963-1964. Single storey, square-plan pyramidal church with halls adjoining to SW. Facing bricks. Deep overhanging boarded timber eaves to church supported by steel girder columns; continuous horizontal band of clerestory windows below eaves to church.

CHURCH:

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; flat-roofed porch advanced to centre, 2 steps to 2-leaf timber door, flanked to left and right by 3-light glazed panels, single windows to left and right returns.

NE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; boarded timber door reached by ramp off-centre to right.

NW ELEVATION: blank except clerestory windows (see above).

SW ELEVATION: blank, except clerestory windows (see above); halls adjoining to centre (see below).

Predominantly metal-framed windows. Copper pyramidal roof, glazed to stepped-back apex; copper steeply-pitched pyramidal belfry above, on 4 stilts, timber underside.

INTERIOR: brick lined nave with glazed timber doors; tiled and boarded timber floor; timber pews arranged at angles around central timber pulpit, font, lectern and communion table on raised plinth; boarded timber lining to tall pyramidal roof, timber grid to apex with rooflights and artificial lighting.

HALLS:

Single storey, T-plan church halls advanced from centre of SE Elevation of church.

SE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; glazed timber door to right, flanked to left by long glazed corridor; kitchen and lavatory wing advanced to left, windows to right return with doorway stepped-forward to centre, 2-leaf timber door flanked by glazed panels; main hall stepped up and back to outer left, horizontal band of windows below roofline.

NE ELEVATION: adjoining church.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; band of windows to bays to right, bays to left stepped-forward with band of windows; main hall stepped back to outer right.

SW ELEVATION: main hall, continuous horizontal band of windows below roofline.

Predominantly timber-framed windows. Flat roof with vertical copper overhang to all but main hall.

INTERIOR: simple with boarded timber ceilings, except in main hall.

STEEL CROSS: large steel crucifix to S of church.