West Parish Church And Church House/Hall, Burnbank Road, Hamilton

1880 John Hutchison (Glasgow). 13th. century Gothic

style. Five aisleless bays and shallow transepts shallow

'sanctuary' organ chamber and link to hall at right

angles, snecked stugged rubble with ashlar dressings.

West gable has gabled doorway of two orders of shafts,

plain tympanum, arcaded spandrel areas flanking gable;

flanking side lights 3-light window above with

geometrical tracery, and empty niche in apex. South

west square tower with gabled south door, angle

buttresses, and octagonal pinnacles, broach with clock

faces in shafted lucarnes to octagonal belfry stage of

single pedimented lights with shafted angles, octagonal

spire with weathervane, angle buttresses with octagonal

pinnacles and apsed gallery stair at north west. Flanks

buttressed with 2-light windows. Shallow transept 3-

light windows all with simple geometrical tracery. Low

link to hall/Church House. Door, 3-light, hall gable 3

stepped lancets with overarch. Steep pitched slated

roofs with skewputts. Finials and gablet ventilators.

Church House single-storey and attic, gablet to door

and bipartites on left. Low enclosure wall with gablet

gatepiers. Interior galleried at west end, hammerbeam

roof, gothic organ case behind central pulpit in

'chancel arch' with single order of shafts.