Hamilton South Church, Mill Road is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 May 1993. Church. 1 related planning application.

Hamilton South Church, Mill Road

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 May 1993
Type
Church
Address
Hamilton South Church, Mill Road, ML3 8AA
OS grid reference
NS 716 537
Coordinates
55.76018, -4.04663
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Hamilton South Church, located on Mill Road, was built in 1903 and features a rectangular plan in a simple Gothic style. The exterior is constructed of stugged and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. Notable elements include a base course at the front gable, a chamfered wallhead course, battered buttresses, and lancet windows with chamfered jambs. The church has coped skews and cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.

The front gable showcases a central two-leaf pointed door framed by a stop-chamfered doorcase and hoodmould, flanked by small square-headed windows with segmentally chamfered lintels. Above, there is a stepped three-light gallery window with a hoodmould, and the gable is shouldered with a date panel on the left, diagonal buttresses, and a cross-finial.

On the left return elevation, there are six lancet windows and five buttresses. The right return elevation features a paired stair window to the left and a gabled bellcote rising through the wallhead, which contains a pointed bell chamber and bell, along with five windows and buttresses to the right.

At the rear gables, there is a three-light window, and a modern church hall is advanced at the ground floor.

Inside, the church features plain wrought-iron boundary railings, decorative cast-iron gatepiers, and wrought-iron gates at the front gable.

Local climate

Hamilton South Church, Mill Road sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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