St Patrick's R.C. Church, Shieldmuir Street, Craigneuk

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 30/03/2001 Local Authority North Lanarkshire Planning Authority North Lanarkshire Burgh Motherwell And Wishaw NGR NS 77413 55755 Coordinates 277413, 655755 — Pugin and Pugin, 1897. Gabled, basilica-plan gothic church, paired 4-light lancets above doors to centre West end elevation, large multi-foil to crossgable. Bull-faced red sandstone coursers with ashlar margins. Hoodmoulds to principal openings. Flowing tracery. Moulded eaves course. W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-bays to entrance in gabled end of nave, pointed arch doors with 3-light cusped fanlights, with traceried 4-light windows above in panelled pointed arch recess to each bay. 3 saw-tooth coped buttresses dividing bays; cusped statue niche to upperstage of central buttress, white stone statue of St Patrick on red sandstone octagonal plinth. Multifoils to dial pattern in gablehead oculus, small cusped window at apex; cross finial. Flanking bays to single storey aisles. Single bay to right, return to S elevation. Gabled bay to left, with 4-light pointed arch window quatrefoil to gablehead, cross finial; bowed return of baptistry to outer left bay, bay to far left, lancets. E (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bays, canted apse, piended roof; buttressed central bay, rose window, 2-light lancets to flanking bays; flanking lean-to single storey aisles, multifoil oculus to centre of left aisle; aisle to right obscured by single storey lean-to sacristry set at right angle to aisle. 3-bay sacristy to left with 2-light segmental arch windows with stone mullions, except single window to left bay, wallhead chimney. S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 8-bay nave; 1st bay from left blind, segmental arch hood moulding over tripartite stone mullioned segmental windows to rest, engaged buttresses between bays 7 and 8, recessed statue nic

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.