Auchingramont Church, Union Street, Hamilton

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 19/09/1979 Local Authority South Lanarkshire Planning Authority South Lanarkshire Burgh Hamilton NGR NS 71771 55462 Coordinates 271771, 655462 — James Salmon 1860. Decorated Gothic. Coursers of differing depth with polished dressings. 5-bay buttressed rectangular plan. South west gabled front interesting composition stepping up from right to left with gabled doorway, hood mould and head label stops, mouldings die into splays wheel rose window over, cusped light at apex of gable, low 3-stage tower to left with angle buttresses, and 2-light plate tracery top stage openings, bold arcaded cornice and broach spire with 2- light belfry lucarnes, and weathercock; 'aisle' front on right recessed at upper level with small splayed lancet. Depressed single-light windows at flanks. Vestry with door and window to each gable at north east end. Fine patterned slated roof. Single-span interior with U-plan gallery on slender cast-iron stanchions. Braced king post roof with painted boarded ceiling. Churchyard has square ashlar gatepiers with denticulated cornices and steeply raked capping, dwarf walls with railings between gablet piers. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Built as relic for Old Parish Church. Cost $4,218.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.