Uddingston Old Parish Church And Church Hall, Old Glasgow Road, Uddingston

The church was designed by Halkett in 1874, with an apse and transepts added in 1885–6. It is a gable-ended galleried Latin cross-plan hall church with flanking aisles. A three-stage square-plan buttressed clock tower with stone spire is positioned at the left angle. The walls are constructed of stugged cream sandstone ashlar, re-pointed at the base, with polished and droved ashlar dressings. Details include a base course, string course over the door, string course dividing the tower stages, a cornice to the tower, and two band courses to the spire. Openings are hoodmoulded and point-arched with long and short margins and chamfered reveals. Buttresses divide the nave from the aisles, and angle buttresses are present.

The principal (north) elevation features a multi-moulded doorpiece on columnar supports with a blocked arch-ring at ground level in a gabled bay. A two-leaf boarded door is flanked by small, narrow lights, with a plate-traceried gable window above and a trefoil motif to the gablehead. Windows appear in aisle bays to the right. The tower has a window at the second stage and a clock set within a round-arced recess with machicolation detail above on the north and east faces at the third stage. Gabletted louvered plate-traceried openings with columnar mullions appear to each side of the spire base.

The east elevation is irregular with six bays, grouped 1–1–4, with the spire to the outer right. Windows appear in each aisle bay to the centre. An advanced gabled transept bay to the left contains three windows at ground level and a three-light window with a taller central light and point-arch spanning to the gable above. A blind three-light opening faces a projecting gabled addition to the outer left.

The west elevation is irregular with five bays, grouped 1–4–1. Windows appear in each aisle bay to the centre. A Tudor-arched doorway with a boarded door is set at ground level in the outer left bay, with a window bearing a point-arched motif to a gablet above. The gabled transept bay mirrors the east elevation treatment.

The south (rear) elevation features a canted four-sided apse with windows set high to each side and a lean-to entrance porch to the left.

Fixed leaded stained glass windows are installed throughout. The roof is grey slate, with slate also covering the transepts and piended apse. Ashlar coped skews carry gablet skewputts and simple finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods with some uPVC replacements are present.

The interior contains painted carved timber galleries above the aisles and to the north end, supported by plain cast-iron columnar supports. Aisle vault supports have foliate capitals. Timber pews are tiered to the galleries. The painted plaster roof features slim beams with point-arched panels between. A full-height point-arch spans the apse at the south end, topped with a boarded chevron roof. A carved timber altar stands before a raised polygonal pulpit, and a carved timber organ case with pipes is set into the apse behind. Modern timber-framed glazed session houses are positioned below galleries at the east and west transepts. A decorative cornice ornaments the vestibule, and stone steps with barleysugar balusters and timber handrails lead to the gallery above.

A later addition from the late 19th or early 20th century comprises a gabled rectangular-plan church hall with regular fenestration, sited to the south of the church. This connects via linking bays to form an L-plan. The hall has a barrel-vaulted main interior with elliptical-arched ribs.

The hall's principal (east) elevation features a centred three-light pointed-arched window with a pointed-arched hood-mould spanning below a stepped gable and a trefoil motif to the gablehead. Two windows appear in a lower curved entrance wing to the right.

The entrance (north) elevation contains a five-bay entrance wing with a two-bay curved angle to the left. A multi-moulded segmental-arched doorpiece in a slightly advanced square-headed surround breaks the eaves in a bay left of centre. Two-leaf part-glazed timber panelled doors with three trefoil-headed upper lights to each leaf are flanked by small-pane lights. Windows are unevenly disposed in the remaining bays, with a single window set close to the left bay and a tripartite window in the angle bay.

The rear (south) elevation contains seven bays. Tripartite windows occupy three central bays, a bipartite window the penultimate right bay, and a two-leaf timber panelled door with narrow upper lights the outer right bay. A bipartite window appears in the penultimate left bay, and a smaller bipartite window set high is in the outer left bay.

A three-bay linking block extends from the northwest angle, with part-glazed two-leaf timber panelled doors bearing three trefoil-headed upper lights to each leaf and tripartite windows in flanking bays.

The hall's interior is a barrel-vaulted space with elliptical-arched ribs, a stage to the west end, timber dado, part-glazed timber panelled doors, and timber floorboards. Predominantly fixed small-pane aluminium windows have been installed. The roof is grey slate with ashlar skews and uPVC rainwater goods.

The boundary features square-plan ashlar sandstone gatepiers on plinths with gabletted point-arched panels to each side at the north entrance. Commemorative wrought-iron gates bear gilt wreaths surrounding the dates 1939 and 1945. Low stugged sandstone ashlar boundary walls with ridged ashlar cope are fitted with replaced wrought-iron railings. The east entrance features square-plan sandstone ashlar piers with stop-chamfered angles, plinths, and stepped shallow pyramidal caps, also with replacement wrought-iron gates.