Burnbank Parish Church And Hall, Udston Road, Hamilton

Burnbank Parish Church and Hall, located on Udston Road in Hamilton, was built in 1880, with the main hall added in 1900, the chancel in 1902, and a small hall in 1927. This aisleless church features a simple Gothic design and is arranged in an L-plan due to the addition of the main hall, which is further extended by the small hall. The structure is constructed from stugged and snecked cream sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, a bull-faced base course, and a green slate roof adorned with decorative terracotta ridge tiles. The small hall is harled with ashlar dressings. Architectural details include a base course, a chamfered wallhead course, buttressed nave and chancel, lancet windows, and stepped three-light windows at the gables. The building is topped with coped skews and gabletted skewputts, along with cross-finials on the gables and a belfry on the west gable.

The front elevation has six bays on the left side, with a gabled entrance porch located in the second bay from the left. The left return gable features a stepped three-light window set in a pointed recessed ashlar panel with a hoodmould, and a belfry at the apex supported by a sculpted angel corbel. The lower chancel is recessed to the right, consisting of two bays, with a stepped three-light window in the right return gable and a small boilerhouse addition to the right.

On the rear elevation, the gable of the main hall is advanced to the left, showcasing a stepped three-light window and a canopied niche in the roofspace. A small vestry is located at the right re-entrant angle, with four windows of the church recessed at the right side. The small hall is situated to the left of the main hall.

Inside, the church features plain pilaster walls with ashlar dressings and a dado, along with a collar brace roof and exposed sarking. The chancel has painted rubble walls, wainscotting, and a wagon roof. Stained glass windows in the chancel include a war memorial window at the center, a memorial to the Rev Henry Wotherspoon (the founding minister from 1880 to 1894) on the left, and a memorial to the Rev A S Dingwall Scott (minister from 1894 to 1920) on the right, with side windows gifted in 1930. A mural in the chancel is dated 1907, and murals flanking the chancel arch were created by R McLean Thomson in 1967. The organ was rebuilt by H Hilsdon Ltd. of Glasgow in 1922, though the original builder's nameplate is missing.