Kildrum Parish Church, Clouden Road, Cumbernauld

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 19/12/2000 Local Authority North Lanarkshire Planning Authority North Lanarkshire Burgh Cumbernauld NGR NS 76657 74695 Coordinates 276657, 674695 — Alan Reiach and Stuart Renton, 1960-62. Single storey, square-plan church, with hall adjoining to NE, linked to manse. Steel-framed, facing brick, with part timber-cladding. Continuous horizontal band of clerestory windows below eaves to church. Horizontally-boarded profiled metal fascia to church, hall and manse. Steps up to paved entrance level open courtyard. Marked concrete bell tower. TOWER: open-framed, 4-stage bell tower, with vertical timber slatting to upper stage. NE ELEVATION: predominantly blank, with deep band of clerestory windows; projecting entrance block to outer left, part-glazed; projecting block to outer right linking to hall (see below), comprising covered walkway to right of centre, remainder with predominantly tripartite glazing. SE ELEVATION: predominantly blank, with clerestory lights dropping to lintel height of door to outer left at ground; coped, whitewashed brick wall projecting from outer left, with large wood and metal cross on SE face. Predominantly metal-framed windows. Flat roofs. INTERIOR: lit by continuous clerestory, with roof, apparently 'floating'. Norwegian quartz aggregate pulpit and reading desk; teak communion table and font; Baltic redwood pews and ceiling. Original timber organ console, pipes and frame in situ. HALL: single storey church hall, parallel with and linked to church (see above); advanced vertically-boarded timber-clad SW entrance block elevation, with central doorpiece and symmetrical small light fenestration; predominantly blank SE elevation, with part-glazed NE return to projecting end of entrance block, door to left of centre at ground, coped c

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.