St Patrick's R.C. Church, Shieldmuir Street, Craigneuk

St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church was built in 1897 by Pugin and Pugin. It is a gabled, basilica-plan church constructed of bull-faced red sandstone with ashlar margins. The west elevation, which is the principal facade, features paired four-light lancet windows above the doors, and a large multifoil window in the gable of the crossing. Hoodmoulds adorn the main openings, and the windows have flowing tracery. A moulded eaves course runs along the top of the building.

The west elevation is divided into bays with three saw-tooth coped buttresses. The central buttress contains a statue niche on its upper stage, displaying a white stone statue of St Patrick on a red sandstone octagonal plinth. The gablehead has a dial pattern oculus and a small cusped window at its apex, topped with a cross finial. Flanking bays contain single-story aisles. To the right is a single bay that returns to the south elevation, and to the left is a gabled bay with a quatrefoil window in the gablehead, also topped with a cross finial. A bowed baptistry returns to the outer left bay, and lancet windows are present in the far left bay.

The east elevation is three bays wide, with a canted apse and a piended roof. The central bay is buttressed, and the apse features a rose window and two-light lancet windows in the flanking bays. Single-story lean-to aisles flank the apse, with a multifoil oculus in the center of the left aisle. The aisle on the right is partly obscured by a single-story lean-to sacristry attached at a right angle. The sacristy itself has three bays with two-light segmental arch windows containing stone mullions, except for a single window in the left bay. A wallhead chimney is also present.

The south side elevation has eight bays; the first is blind. Segmental arch hood mouldings cover the tripartite stone mullioned segmental windows in the remaining bays. Engaged buttresses are positioned between bays seven and eight, and a recessed statue niche sits with a plinth. The aisle has a gable that breaks the eaves over the first bay to the left, with a bipartite stair window above a small cusped window. Paired narrow windows fill the other bays, with bull-faced plain pilasters dividing the spaces, except for the last bay. This last bay has a hood-moulded, paired segmental arch bipartites with stone mullions and curvilinear tracery.

The north side elevation mirrors the south side, with the exception of the first bay on the right. An advanced bowed baptistry bay abuts the gabled roof with skews, similar to the west elevation. The center bays of the aisles are partially obscured by a low, flat-roofed block, with single cusped narrow windows.

The windows are diamond lead pane, and the roof is covered in graduated grey/green slate, with concrete pantiles on the aisles. Lead flashing and filigreed cresting are also present. A coped parapet is on the west gable, while the east end of the roof ridge features a cross finial. Moulded and decorated cast-iron guttering and hoppers are visible. A short flight of stone steps leads from the pavement to a flagged area in front of the west elevation. The interior was not inspected in 2000.

Adjacent to the church stands a two-story, four-bay, rectangular-plan gabled villa, which serves as the presbytery. It is also constructed of bull-faced red sandstone and has regular fenestration with bipartite pointed arch windows incorporating stone mullions. Finialed gables break the eaves at the rear, with modern double glazing in the windows. It has grey slates, lead flashing, cast-iron rainwater goods, coped skews with scroll skewputts, and coped gable end stacks.