Weir Street, Dunbeth Church Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Robert Baldie, 1872; hall added by Baldwin and Tennant, 1885. Gothic style hall-plan church with tower and spire. Stugged and snecked cream sandstone rubble, polished and stugged ashlar dressings, grey slate roof. Base course, wallhead course. Buttressed front and side elevations. Mostly 2-light pointed windows with chamfered jambs, continuous hoodmoulds to side elevations. Continuous hoodmould to ground floor front elevation, diaper-work frieze to 1st floor, 5-light geometric-traceried gallery window. Ashlar coped skews with gabletted skewputts; bell-cast roof with 3 large, gabled and louvered lucarnes to each pitch. FRONT (W) ELEVATION: gable to centre. 2-leaf central door with large trefoil-headed fanlight and multiple-moulded pointed doorcase with nook shafts, flanked by lancet windows, approached by steps flanked by pierced balustrade with cast-iron capped polygonal piers, gallery window above. Lateral-gabled stair bay to right; quatrefoil motif at ground floor, 3 trefoil-headed windows at upper level. Tower to left; quatrefoil motif at ground floor, gable at 1st floor with Y-traceried window flanked by angle buttresses terminating in octagonal drums with finialled conical caps, octagonal spire rising from deep drum with louvered belfry apertures and finialled angle buttresses, small platform at tip of spire with decorative weathercock. N ELEVATION: tower to right, with moulded pointed-arch doorcase, window and gable at 1st floor as front elevation; 5 bays to left with windows; gable of hall to far left with 3-light pointed window flanked by lancets. S ELEVATION: stair gable slightly advanced to left with window; 5 bays to right with windows; hall advanced to far right, chimney gable at centre, canted bay to left return, single storey modern addition to left re-entrant. E ELEVATION: organ chamber advanced from gable, mostly masked by hall. INTERIOR: not seen BOUNDARY WALL: coped rubblew boundary wall to S and E.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
© Crown Copyright text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland, reprinted under the Open Government License.
The church was built as a United Presbyterian Church. There were formerly railings to the N and W elevations.
Listed Building References
© Crown Copyright text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland, reprinted under the Open Government License.
AIRDRIE ADVERTISER, 27 May 1871, 11 May 1872, 17 October 1875; Allan Peden, THE MONKLANDS, AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (19929, p45; information ex Monklands District Council.