Parish Church, Crawford

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 27/04/1995 Local Authority South Lanarkshire Planning Authority South Lanarkshire Parish Crawford NGR NS 95556 20833 Coordinates 295556, 620833 — James Maitland Wardrop, 1874. Rectangular-plan Gothic-style former Church of Scotland with rounded apse, porch and belfry. Snecked and bull-faced red rubble sandstone, ashlar dressings, slate roof. Base course, eaves course, ashlar-coped sawtooth skews with bracketted skewputts; lancet windows with chamfered jambs, hoodmoulds to front elevation and (ecclesiastical) west gable. FRONT ELEVATION: 6-bay, gabled porch 2nd bay from right with stop-chamfered jambs, moulded pointed arch with hoodmould, 2-leaf boarded timber doors. (ECCLESIASTICAL) W GABLE: 2 tall lancets, rose window at gallery level, birdcage bellcote with weathercock finial and pyramidal roof corbelled at gable apex. REAR ELEVATION: 6 windows to right, shoulder-headed door to boilerhouse at left. (ECCLESIASTICAL) E END: rounded apse with 3 windows and semi-conical roof. INTERIOR: most furnishings removed (1995). Hammerbeam roof; various rolls of honour, war and other memorials; stained glass windows (some memorials); modern partitioning at (ecclesiastical) W end; semi-circular seat with boarded dado at apse. — Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such; closed 1994.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.