Chambers Parish Church, East Academy Street, Wishaw

Alexander Hinshelwood, 1874. Gothic, gabled rectangular-plan church; square 3-stage belltower to NE corner with stone spire. Squared yellow sandstone coursers with ashlar margins. Set-back gabletted buttresses with sawtooth coping, hooded pointed-arch windows with chamfered reveals.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pointed-arch timber panelled door to centre, timber arch head with carved multifoil; label-stopped hood mould, double-chamfered reveal supported on red sandstone columns with stiff-leaf capitals. Flanking small cusped lancet windows; large tripartite window above with geometric tracery and stone mullions, multifoil to apex; chevron corbel table at eaves. TOWER: 3-stage; plaque to centre of 1st stage with continuous hoodmould, elongated 2nd stage with lance, wallhead battered; octagonal splay-foot spire, gabled lucarnes to belfry, spire banded with lozenge moulding, stone cap with cast-iron decorative finial.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: squared and snecked rubble; 2 tall lancets to ground; oculus to gablehead.

SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 5-bay, regularly fenestrated tall lancets with continuous cill course and hoodmould; except to outer bay to right, short lancet above square door; Lombard frieze to eaves course.

NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: mirror of SW, except tower to outer bay to left.

Leaded glass with border glazing, stained glass to chancel. Alternate bands of grey rectangular and fishscale slates, lead flashing with 3 lead vents, coped stone skews and gablet skewputts; coped stack to rear gable.

INTERIOR: galleried interior, narthex with flanking stairs to gallery. Boarded dado. Timber pews. Cast-iron columns supporting panelled gallery. Communion table in front of ornately carved timber pulpit with stair access and timber gothic panelled organ and case behind.

CHURCH HALL: Malcolm Ross, 1903. L-plan addition abutting church to SW corner. Advanced gabled wing to left; stepped rectangular tripartite window to centre with stone mullions and transom, hoodmould; inscribed panel to gablehead; CUFC HALL, regular fenestration to returns; smaller wing connecting to church to right, 2 dormers breaking eaves with shouldered pediments and cast-iron finials, ground floor obscured by modern addition. Rear obscured by modern addition. Grey slates, coped skews.

BOUNDARY: small squared sandstone wall with saddleback coping and modern railings.