Cambusnethan Parish Church

Circa 1650. Rectangular-plan ruinous church, aligned EW; birdcage belfry to W gable, roof and E gablehead missing, 18th century addition to NE; squared and snecked yellow sandstone rubble.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: lancet arch entrance off-centre right, bead moulded architrave inscribed: WITHOUT HOLINESS NO MAN??ETH THE LORD, half-height pillars to reveals, base, foliate capitals, cavetto hood mould with mask stops; blocked square-head doorway to right, lintel inscribed: ALMY VAIN THOWTS STAY YE HEER BECAWS MY GOD I DO DRAW NEER 1672; pedimented plaque to right in memorial to David Leighton, Coltness estate factor, 1815; upper courses ruinous.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: advanced wing to right, 18th century addition, squared and tooled sandstone coursers, cornice, 2 architraved niches to right return; blank rubble nave wall to right.

E (GABLE) ELEVATION: later slapping with rubble in-fill; gable missing.

W (GABLE) ELEVATION: blank full-height gable wall; saw tooth coped skews; birdcage belfry, square fluted pillars, entablature, swept pyramidal caps, ball finials, pyramidal canopy with ball finial.

INTERIOR: full-length yellow sandstone gothic memorial to Houldsworth family set in E gable, 1853, 6-bay, trefoliated lancet arches, red sandstone cluster columns decorative carving to spandrels, inscribed entablature, recessed niches with marble inscribed panels.

Roof structure missing.

BOUNDARY WALL: low rubble wall, chamfered ashlar coping, square gate piers with jettied pyramidal caps. 19th century decorative cast-iron gate, railings removed.