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

Pugin and Pugin, dated 1905. Tall, rectangular-plan gothic-detailed church with 7-bay nave, side aisles incorporating chapels and confessionals, polygonal stair tower and oratory (former baptistry). Bull-faced red sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Deep base course and moulded eaves course; string courses to SW. Traceried circular, pointed- and segmental-arched openings, some hoodmoulded. 2- and 3-stage coped buttresses; Voussoirs; raked cills; quatrefoil vents.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tall gabled elevation with 2 doors (each 2-leaf boarded timber with traceried head) surmounted by relief-carved and dated band giving way to tall windows, centre buttress with carved statue of St Joseph in niche at 2nd stage; circular window in gablehead surmounted by further tiny circular window and cross finial. Outer buttresses giving way to projecting, buttressed stair tower at left and side aisle beyond with door and circular window offset above; broader single stage oratory projecting at right and masking side aisle, flat-roofed bay with segmental arched tripartite window at outer right probably later. All openings pointed-arch unless otherwise stated.

NW ELEVATION: projecting side aisle with window to each bay, door to penultimate bay at left, 2 small windows to outer left and further window on return to left; regular fenestration with dividing buttresses to 1st stage of nave and tall window to chancel window to chancel, all others segmental.

SE ELEVATION: mirrors NW elevation but with additional full-width flat-roofed passageway projecting from side aisle. Windows to side aisle and passageway square-headed incorporating trefoil tracery.

NE ELEVATION: large segmental-arched window at centre close to gablehead and 2 small gabled bays projecting at left.

INTERIOR: fine arcaded interior with clerestory windows and queenpost truss roof with some stencilled panels to chancel. Fixed timber pews. Coloured marble fittings mostly 1928 (see Notes). Window from baptistry moved to New Baptistry 1991. E window, John Hardman Studio, depicts Holy Spirit with emblems of Four Evangelists. Organ in small timber gallery to SW.

Diamond-pattern leading glazing with coloured margins and much coloured figurative glass; secondary exterior plastic guards. Small green slates with pierced ridge tiles. Ashlar-coped skews with mitre skewputts. Decorative cast-iron square-section gutters and rainwater hoppers with polygonal downpipes.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: low saddleback-coped bull-faced boundary walls with inset railings and polygonal gatepiers.