Church Of The Holy Trinity, Crawford Street, Motherwell

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 10/12/2001 Local Authority North Lanarkshire Planning Authority North Lanarkshire Burgh Motherwell And Wishaw NGR NS 75003 56797 Coordinates 275003, 656797 — Miles S Gibson, 1894. 7-bay. Plain Arts and Crafts-gothic, cruciform-plan church, aligned NS. Slated timber fleche, buttressed, steeply pitched gabled roof with overhanging eaves. Squared and snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings. Continuous cill course to gable ends; lancet windows with chamfered margins; plain barge boarding to gables. E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 7-bay. Tripartite lancet windows except gabled porch to 2nd bay from left with pointed-arched door and paired lancet windows to centre bay; single tall lancet to gabled transept to penultimate right, blind terminating bay to outer right. N (FRONT) ELEVATION: tall tripartite, stepped lancet windows with double chamfered reveal and stopped hoodmould; hoodmoulded vesica to apex. S (REAR) ELEVATION: mirror of N. W (SIDE) ELEVATION: mirror to E. Leaded glass, stained glass to gables. Grey graded slates; ridge tiles, decorative ridge tiles to chancel. Cross finials to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: brick lined walls with ashlar dressings; pointed chancel arch; open timber beam roof supported on stone corbels; deep window embrasures. BOUNDARY WALL: dwarf squared rubble wall to street with saddleback coping rising to gate piers; later gates and railings. — Ecclesiastical building still in use as such. Miles S Gibson, worked from 131 West Regent Street, Glasgow. Also responsible for Wishaw St Andrews Episcopal Church in a similar style (see separate listing). A simple design but notable for it's good proportions.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.