Burnbank Parish Church And Hall, Udston Road, Hamilton

1880; main hall 1900; chancel 1902; small hall 1927. Aisleless simple Gothic church, made L-plan by addition of main hall, further attenuated by small hall. Stugged and snecked cream sandstone rubble, ashlar dressings, bull-faced base course, green slate roof, decorative terracotta ridge tiles. Small hall harled with ashlar dressings. Base course, chamfered wallhead course; buttressed nave and chancel; lancet windows, stepped 3-light windows to gables; coped skews with gabletted skewputts; cross-finials to gables, belfry to W gable.

FRONT ELEVATION: 6 bays to left, gabled entrance porch 2nd bay from left; left return gable, stepped 3-light window in pointed recessed ashlar panel with hoodmould, belfry at apex with sculpted angel corbel. Lower chancel recessed to right, 2 bays, stepped 3-light window to right return gable with small boilerhouse addition to right.

REAR ELEVATION: gable of main hall advanced to left, stepped 3-light window, canopied niche to roofspace; small vestry to right re-entrant angle; 4 windows to church recessed at right. Small hall to left of main hall.

INTERIOR: plain pilaster walls, ashlar dressings, dado; collar brace roof, exposed sarking; chancel has painted rubble walls, wainscotting, wagon roof. Stained glass windows in chancel; war memorial window at centre, memorial to the Rev Henry Wotherspoon (founding minister 1880-94) to left, memorial to the Rev A S Dingwall Scott (minister 1894-1920) to right; side windows gifted 1930. Chancel mural dated 1907; murals flanking chancel arch R McLean Thomson, 1967. Organ rebuilt H Hilsdon Ltd., Glasgow, 1922 (no original builder's nameplate).