West Parish Church And Church House/Hall, Burnbank Road, Hamilton is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 September 1979. Church.
West Parish Church And Church House/Hall, Burnbank Road, Hamilton
- WRENN ID
- worn-plinth-lake
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 September 1979
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Parish Church and Church House, located on Burnbank Road in Hamilton, was designed by John Hutchison of Glasgow in 1880 and is built in a 13th-century Gothic style. The church features five bays without aisles and shallow transepts, along with a shallow sanctuary and an organ chamber that connects to the hall at right angles. The exterior is constructed from snecked stugged rubble with ashlar dressings.
The west gable showcases a gabled doorway with two orders of shafts, a plain tympanum, and arcaded spandrel areas on either side. Above the doorway, there is a 3-light window with geometrical tracery and an empty niche at the apex. The southwest square tower includes a gabled south door, angle buttresses, and octagonal pinnacles. It has a clock face in the shafted lucarnes leading to the octagonal belfry stage, which features single pedimented lights with shafted angles, topped by an octagonal spire with a weathervane. The tower also has angle buttresses with octagonal pinnacles and an apsed gallery stair at the northwest. The flanks are buttressed and contain 2-light windows, while the shallow transept has 3-light windows, all adorned with simple geometrical tracery.
A low link connects the church to the hall or Church House, which has a door and a gable featuring 3 stepped lancets with an overarch. The roofs are steeply pitched and slated, complete with skewputts, finials, and gablet ventilators. The Church House is a single-storey structure with an attic, featuring a gablet above the door and bipartite windows on the left. The site is enclosed by a low wall with gablet gatepiers.
Inside the church, the west end is galleried, featuring a hammerbeam roof. The gothic organ case is positioned behind the central pulpit within the chancel arch, which is supported by a single order of shafts.
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