New Lanark Church, New Lanark Road, New Lanark is a Grade A listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 August 1974. Church. 2 related planning applications.

New Lanark Church, New Lanark Road, New Lanark

WRENN ID
upper-gargoyle-kestrel
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 August 1974
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 880 426
Coordinates
55.66441, -3.78178
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

New Lanark Church, built by Thomas Carlaw between 1898 and 1899, is a single-storey, four-bay church designed in a simple Gothic style. It features a rectangular plan with a west gable belfry and a porch that is positioned at right angles to the main axis of the church. The building is constructed from snecked pink sandstone with polished yellow ashlar dressings, and includes a base course and eaves course. The corners are accentuated with long and short quoins. The north and south elevations have regular fenestration, showcasing roll-moulded hoodmoulds and tabbed, chamfered margins. The entrance features a two-leaf timber-boarded door leading to a gabled lobby-porch, topped with a cross finial on the east gable.

The church predominantly has square-pane leaded glazing and is finished with ashlar-coped skews that have gableted bracketed skewputts, while the porch skews have chamfered edges. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building includes cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the church has a simple late 19th-century interior, with timber-boarded panelling up to dado height. The main hall features a braced timber roof with herringbone-pattern boards between the trusses. Additional interior elements include a timber altar rail with ball finials, a commemorative plaque, and four-panelled timber doors.

The church is elevated above street level on a terrace, accessed by four steps at the gateway, which currently has no gate. The stop-chamfered gatepiers are adorned with gothic mouldings and gableted caps. Surrounding the church are random rubble boundary walls topped with chamfered coping and spear-headed wrought-iron railings.

Local climate

New Lanark Church, New Lanark Road, New Lanark sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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 0.3°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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