Cambuslang Old Parish Church, Cairns Road, Cambuslang, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Cambuslang Old Parish Church, Cairns Road, Cambuslang, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- secret-shingle-rook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
David Cousin of Edinburgh, 1839-41. Rectangular church with square tower central on E gables; transitional style, round-headed openings, mostly tall lights, inset shafts with scalloped capitals; plaster strips; pinnacles; tower has door at foot, clock and belfry stages above main roofline, lucarned tall spire, re-set 1626 stone within; block corbels at eaves and parapets; 4-bay flanks; chancel by Peter MacGregor Chalmers, 1919-22 (although designed 1913), at W and vestry.
Stugged ashlar, polished dressings, slate roofs. Impressive vaulted interior, curved gallery on cast-iron columns; leaded windows, tapestries and altar cross all by Sadie MacLellan; 1612 bell installed MIH (for John Houston) and CH (possibly for Charles Hogg, Edinburgh Bell-founder); war memorial also by MacGregor Chalmers, 1921.
Churchyard enclosed by rubble-built walls and modern iron railings, gatepiers with intersecting arcading, cast-iron gates; stone monuments, mostly 19th century headstones, much vandalised.
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