Hamilton Memorial Church, Glasgow Road, Clydebank

The Hamilton Memorial Church, situated on Glasgow Road, Clydebank, was built in 1884. It is a Neo-Norman style church of a roughly rectangular plan, with a prominent gable facing the road and a square tower with a spire rising from the north-east angle; it abuts an earlier 20th-century single-storey hall to the south-east. The church is constructed from snecked and tooled square rubble, with ashlar dressings to the main entrance and string courses on the principal elevation.

The north-east (principal) elevation features a central, round-arched porch with double chamfered details. The porch has timber boarded doors, a vine leaf carved lintel with a central carving of a bible set within a cartouche, and flanking plain shafts with Ionic capitals. An arched fanlight above the doors is now blocked. Above the porch is a round-arched window with plate tracery, featuring three round-arched lights and an eight-part circle window, all set within a hoodmold. A small crucifix finial adorns the gable apex, and full-height buttresses flank the window.

The tower, of four stages and topped with a pyramidal spire, is prominent on the left side of the principal elevation. The first stage is plain, while the second stage incorporates a bracketed, round-arched, pedimented, and pilastered memorial plaque. This plaque contains a cartouche displaying part of the Hamilton coat of arms, with three cinquefoils, carved foliage to the pediment, and the inscription “HAMILTON / MEMORIAL / CHURCH / FOUNDATION STONE / OF THIS CHURCH / WAS LAID BY / MRS BRUCE/ FOR / MISS HAMILTON / ON 2? OF FEBRUARY / 1884”. Arrow slits are present at the third stage, and the fourth stage has a bellcote with linked bipartite tracery openings, a keystone, and blind carved spandrels. The pyramidal stone spire features angle lucarnes, plate traceried openings, angle spouts, an arcaded gallery at its base, and pedimented louvres. A single-storey masonry wall connects the church to the hall, forming a central courtyard.

The north-west elevation, with five bays, includes a two-storey, pedimented stair tower to the far left, featuring a small, narrow, round-arched window on the ground floor and a long, narrow, round-arched window on the first floor. A later door has been inserted to the right, with four large, full-height, round-arched windows to the right of the door. An advanced, single-storey, piended annexe, likely a former vestry, is located to the far right, with three single windows and a later door to its return.

The south-west (rear) elevation is partially visible. The south-east elevation, also partially visible, has five bays. The tower is on the far right, with a single-storey wall linking the church to the hall to the left of the tower. A long, narrow single round-arched window is located on the second stage, and four large, full-height, round-arched windows are to the left of the tower.

The interior of the church was not inspected in 2002.

The windows are a mix of plain glass and leaded lattice, many covered by protective plastic and mesh grilles externally, while the single-storey annexe has timber sash and case windows. The roof is pitched (partially piended to the rear) and covered with grey slates, with flat-headed skews.

Two pairs of square-plan coped gatepiers flank the entrance elevation and are connected by scroll and serpentine finialled cast-iron railings.