Paterson United Free Church, Lawrie Street, Stonehouse

Shiells and Thomson, 1878-9. Rectangular plan Gothic church with square corner tower to NW and adjoining halls to N. Yellow sandstone rubble with smooth ashlar dressings. Base course, string course above ground floor windows and above central rose window. Pointed-arch openings at ground floor level; hood moulds with decorated terminals. Radial rose window with quatrefoil detail. Bow-ended projection to NW. Modern flat-roofed halls.

TOWER: 4 stages divided by string courses. 1st stage with single hood-moulded lancet to SW. 2nd stage with a pair of plain lancets to 3 sides. 3rd stage with tall louvered lancets to all sides with corbelled blind arcade over. 4th stage with clock faces within wide gothic-arched niches. Triangular pediments with crocketted finials. Circular spirelets to corners.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: slightly advanced triangular-headed buttressed central entrance. Gothic-arched doorway with colonettes to splays. Boarded timber door with decorative iron strap-hinges. Trefoil in pediment with date (1878). Flanking single lancets. Triple lancet to apex above rose window and crocketted finial to gablehead. Outer bay to right has square-headed mullioned double window to basement, single lancet at entrance level and quatrefoil over. Angle buttress. Immediately to left of tower is the entrance to the halls. Lean-to roof, Gothic-arched door and single lancet. Date stone (1878).

SE ELEVATION: first bay as right bay on SW elevation. Double lancet and 4 single lancets divided by flat buttresses.

NW ELEVATION: bow-ended piended-roof single storey rubble former hall-vestry.

INTERIOR: modern timber boarded ceiling. Rendered walls with stone cornice and gothic chancel arch. Timber reredos with pierced quatrefoil rail to choir gallery behind. Triangular-pediment chair with trefoil-headed opening. At the E end is a large triangular window flanked by trefoil lights. Along the nave Victorian stained glass; both pictorial and with bannered scripture. Otherwise modern figurative stained glass. Timber gallery.

Leaded and timber glazing. Concrete tile main roof, original secondary roofs with graded grey slate and clay ridge-tiles. Modern rainwater goods. Modern galvanised gate to main door and protective railings to windows.