Rutherglen Old Parish Church, Main Street, Rutherglen, Glasgow

Rutherglen Old Parish Church, located on Main Street in Rutherglen, Glasgow, was designed by John James Burnet and built between 1900 and 1902. This Gothic church features a rectangular plan with a nave and a deep, tall west side aisle. The aisle connects to a pinnacled, shallow-gabled tall porch on the south side, which has a deeply-recessed wide door, and to the north side, it leads to a "transept" gable that actually contains a magistrates' loft and a barrel-vaulted session house. The side aisle includes a pair of stepped four-light windows at ground level, each set in a shallow panel with a wall-head parapet. The other elevations of the church are plain. There is an outshot at the north end of the east wall that houses the organ, which was provided by Norman and Beard of London. The church features pointed-headed three-light gable windows and a canted stair turret at the south side where it meets the side aisle, along with a distinctive stack beside the angle buttresses. The exterior is made of stone-cleaned snecked yellow ashlar with polished dressings, and it has slate roofs.

Inside, the church has a four-bay arcade that separates the side aisle from the nave, with gallery fronts that project between the columns. The timber chancel furnishings are adorned with carved late Gothic ornament, and the chancel front is made of green and white marble from 1902. The leaded windows are mostly clear glass, with the chancel window depicting the Ascension created by James M Benson in 1911. A south gable window serves as a war memorial by W Meikle and Sons from 1922, and there is a single light window on the east side by Abbot and Co of Lancaster from 1960. The interior features a dark-stained open-timber roof with beams supporting the gallery, and marble wall plaques that have mostly been re-set from a previous church. Additionally, a Greenhill chapel was formed in the aisle and dedicated in 1970, incorporating some furnishings from Greenhill Church.