Gilmour Memorial Church, Purdie Street, Burnbank, Hamilton

Duncan McNaughtan, 1882-4. Rectangular-plan, aisleless, simple Gothic church with tower. Cream bull-faced snecked rubble masonry, random rubble at rear gable, ashlar dressings, green slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, piended roof to hall, red tile roof to porch. Base course; cill course at nave and gallery level to principal elevations; flat-coped skews; buttressed nave and rear gable; 2-light lancet

windows in pointed arch panels with hoodmoulds.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: multiple moulded pointed entrance arch with gable roof flanked by small pentice-roofed bays, set between advanced tower to left and buttress to right, 5-light stepped lancet window set in pointed arch panel above, vesica to roofspace, Celtic cross finial; 4-stage tower to left (lacks parapet or spire), pointed windows with hoodmoulds to 2nd and 4th stages, narrow trefoil-headed openings to 3rd stage; buttress to right terminating in large pinnacled octagonal finial. S ELEVATION: stair gable advanced to left with 2 lancet windows, 4 windows and buttresses to nave at right.

N ELEVATION: 4 windows and 3 buttresses to nave at right, tower at extreme right, gable of church hall left with 2 windows and door, later modern addition to far left.

N GABLE: 3-light stepped lancet windows, 2 buttresses; lower part masked by original church hall, and later addition.

INTERIOR: not seen.

GATEPIERS: 4 saddleback-coped gatepiers to W elevation, plain iron railings to N and W elevations.