Boundary Walls, St Joseph's Catholic Church, Mayberry Place, Blantyre

This is a tall, rectangular gothic-detailed church built in 1905 by Pugin and Pugin. It is situated in Mayberry Place, Blantyre and is constructed of bull-faced red sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. The church has a seven-bay nave with side aisles that incorporate chapels and confessionals, a polygonal stair tower and oratory (originally a baptistry), and a deep base course with a moulded eaves course and string courses to the southwest. The openings are traceried, circular, pointed, and segmental-arched, some with hood moulds, and feature voussoirs, raked cills, and quatrefoil vents.

The southwest elevation is the principal facade, being tall and gabled with two boarded timber doors, each with a traceried head, above which is a carved and dated band. Tall windows are positioned above this, with a centre buttress containing a carved statue of St Joseph in a niche. The gablehead features a circular window topped with a smaller circular window and a cross finial. A buttressed stair tower projects to the left, while the side aisle extends further with a door and circular window above. To the right, the oratory projects, masking the side aisle, with a flat-roofed bay containing a segmental-arched tripartite window, likely a later addition.

The northwest elevation features a projecting side aisle with windows in each bay. A door is situated in the penultimate bay to the left, accompanied by two small windows and another window on the return to the left. The fenestration is regular, with dividing buttresses to the first stage of the nave and a tall window to the chancel, with all other windows being segmental. The southeast elevation mirrors the northwest elevation but incorporates a full-width flat-roofed passageway projecting from the side aisle, with square-headed windows incorporating trefoil tracery. The northeast elevation features a large segmental-arched window near the gablehead and two small gabled bays projecting to the left.

The interior is characterised by a fine arcaded design, clerestory windows, and a queenpost truss roof with stencilled panels in the chancel. There are fixed timber pews and marble fittings, mostly installed in 1928. A window originally from the baptistry was relocated to a new baptistry in 1991. The east window, a work by the John Hardman Studio, depicts the Holy Spirit with emblems of the Four Evangelists. An organ is housed in a small timber gallery on the southwest side. The windows incorporate diamond-pattern leading with coloured margins and coloured figurative glass, protected by modern plastic guards externally. The roof is covered with small green slates and pierced ridge tiles, with ashlar-coped skews incorporating mitre skewputts. Decorative cast-iron gutters and rainwater hoppers with polygonal downpipes are also present.

The church is enclosed by low, saddleback-coped boundary walls with inset railings and polygonal gatepiers.