Hamilton Baptist Church, Kemp Street, Hamilton is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 May 1993. 1 related planning application.
Hamilton Baptist Church, Kemp Street, Hamilton
- WRENN ID
- tangled-gargoyle-spring
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1993
- OS grid reference
- NS 721 551
- Coordinates
- 55.77236, -4.04028
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The adjoining hall and offices of Hamilton Baptist Church, dated 1908, is a rectangular-plan church featuring a polygonal apse, with the hall and offices located at the rear. The building is constructed of snecked bull-faced red sandstone rubble, with red brick used for the offices and the rear of the hall, and red ashlar dressings. It has a slate roof adorned with terracotta ridge tiles and an octagonal fleche topped with a finialled spirelet. The church has buttressed aisles and a north gable, with a moulded string course at the gallery level and bracketed eaves. The gables feature kneelers at the shoulders and saddleback-coped skews. The windows include 3-light designs with 4-centred arch heads at the ground floor, square-headed and traceried windows at the gallery level, and pointed traceried windows at the gables, all with simple Art Nouveau pattern leaded glazing.
On the north gable, there is a central 2-leaf door with an astragalled fanlight, set within a multiple-moulded 4-centred arch doorpiece embellished with fleurons. A hoodmould extends over small windows on either side. Above, a 5-light pointed window at the gallery level has jambs that are elongated to finials rising through the skews, and the gable is crenellated at the shoulders with a Celtic cross finial.
The west elevation features the church on the left, with two bays at the center that have windows at both ground and gallery levels. A gabled bay on the left includes a ground floor door, while a slightly advanced gable on the right has windows at both levels. The hall is located on the right, displaying two bipartite windows at the ground floor and a 5-light pointed window above, along with an entrance porch and a corridor linking to the church on the left.
The east elevation mirrors the west elevation in design but has most window divisions left in block. The offices and hall are positioned to the left. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Hamilton Baptist Church, Kemp Street, Hamilton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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