Carmunnock Parish Church, Kirk Road, Glasgow

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/01/1971 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 59912 57487 Coordinates 259912, 657487 — Rebuilt 1762-7, repairs 1838-40. T-plan parish church, orientated E-W suggesting possible use of pre- reformation site and perhaps also of some fabric. BODY OF CHURCH is rubble-built - coursed and squared in areas (eg at N end of W gable); blocks mostly diagonally droved; ashlar dressings; square and round-headed openings (arched window-heads not original); straight forestair on each gable, stone-built porch at head of each; handsome 18th century bellcote over projecting breast on E gable. Skews with moulded skewputts. Main N wall is shallow outset central with gabled low circa 1819 vestry adjoining. Stuart of Castlemilk family AISLE central on S wall and built mid/later 18th century; vault, with loft over; mainly diagonally droved (horizontally droved W wall) and with raised margins, keystoned flat-lintelled doorways; cill band at loft, moulded skewputts, skew end moulding run horizontally below apex stack; main cornice; scale-and-platt forestair to loft door in E re-entrant angle; central doorway to vault on S gable. Vault walls lined with plain marble panels late 19th/early 20th century; jack- arched ceiling and wrought-iron gate presumably contemporary. INTERIOR: mainly 19th century, gallery with panelled front at either end supported on pair cast-iron columns each also with stone corbel set at S end, at window ingoe; aisle gallery now used as organ loft with room behind; octagonal pulpit set central on N wall in shallow outset; 4 leaded windows behind pulpit, by Norman Macleod MacDougall, a World War 1 memorial. CHURCHYARD: enclosed mainly by rubble-built walls, corniced (? 1760s gatepiers to Kirk Road with domed caps; he

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.