Cambuslang Old Parish Church, Cairns Road, Cambuslang, Glasgow

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/01/1971 Local Authority South Lanarkshire Planning Authority South Lanarkshire Parish Cambuslang NGR NS 64557 59961 Coordinates 264557, 659961 — David Cousin of Edinburgh, 1839-41. Rectangular church with square tower central on E gables; transitional style, round-headed openings, mostly tall lights, inset shafts with scalloped capitals; plaster strips; pinnacles; tower has door at foot, clock and belfry stages above main roofline, lucarned tall spire, re-set 1626 stone within; block corbels at eaves and parapets; 4-bay flanks; chancel by Peter MacGregor Chalmers, 1919-22 (although designed 1913), at W and vestry. Stugged ashlar, polished dressings, slate roofs. Impressive vaulted interior, curved gallery on cast-iron columns; leaded windows, tapestries and altar cross all by Sadie MacLellan; 1612 bell installed MIH (for John Houston) and CH (possibly for Charles Hogg, Edinburgh Bell-founder); war memorial also by MacGregor Chalmers, 1921. Churchyard enclosed by rubble-built walls and modern iron railings, gatepiers with intersecting arcading, cast-iron gates; stone monuments, mostly 19th century headstones, much vandalised.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.