Reformed Presbyterian Church, Kenilworth Avenue, Wishaw

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 30/03/2001 Local Authority North Lanarkshire Planning Authority North Lanarkshire Burgh Motherwell And Wishaw NGR NS 79625 55186 Coordinates 279625, 655186 — Early 19th century. Early gothic church. Rectangular-plan, aligned NE-SW; gabled with bellcote to SW; single storey lean-to porch with advanced gabled entrance to SW elevation; buttressed sides; yellow ashlar sandstone. SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: single storey lean-to porch to centre; central advanced gabled entrance bay with hoodmoulds to pointed arch, double chamfered to pointed cusped arch with trefoils to spandrels, flanked by engaged columns with stiff leaf capitals; trefoil to apex, pedimented clasping buttresses to corners. Flanking bays with small hood moulded, bipartite pointed-arch cusped windows with stone mullions; corbelling to eaves course; similar single windows to returns. Hoodmoulded rose window above; arcaded bellcote with gabled roof, supported on stone corbels, trefoils to apex and base. NE (REAR) ELEVATION: multifoil to apex, chimney stack to gablehead; single storey gabled office wing to right, single window, gablehead stack, window and door to SE return, advanced wing to NW return. SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: 5-bay, symmetrical, regularly fenestrated lancet windows; buttressed and corbelled. NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: mirrors SE. Coped skews with gablet skewputts and kneelers. Grey slates, lead flashings; paired small gabled and finialed vents to sides and single vent to ridge; cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: not seen 2000 — Ecclesiastical building still in use as such. The Reformed Presbyterian church is shown on the 1859 OS map but with slightly different plan to the porch found today. The Reformed Presbyterians or Covenanters were certainly established in what was then called

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.