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Salvation Army Citadel, Keith Street, Hamilton

A Category C Listed Building in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.7761 / 55°46'33"N

Longitude: -4.0322 / 4°1'55"W

OS Eastings: 272629

OS Northings: 655511

OS Grid: NS726555

Mapcode National: GBR 018N.V8

Mapcode Global: WH4QX.126S

Plus Code: 9C7QQXG9+C4

Entry Name: Salvation Army Citadel, Keith Street, Hamilton

Listing Name: Keith Street, Salvation Army Citadel, Including Boundary Wall and Railings

Listing Date: 4 May 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 378830

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34558

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200378830

Location: Hamilton

County: South Lanarkshire

Town: Hamilton

Electoral Ward: Hamilton North and East

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

Tagged with: Church building Church hall

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Description

Alexander Cullen, 1908. Single storey and basement, rectangular-plan, Romanesque-detailed former Primitive Methodist church, built on gusset site on falling ground. Stonecleaned, snecked bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings and red sandstone voussoirs alternating with cream sandstone in most windows and doorheads, snecked rubble with ashlar dressings to narrow lower bay at rear gable, modern grey tile roof. Paired round-headed window to side elevations in recessed panels, 3-light round-headed window, to W gable, mottle glass, leaded panes. Denitlled eaves course, flat-coped skews wtih kneelers at base.

W GABLE: round-headed doorcase in single storey, gabletted entrance porch, chamfered bay to left: higher polygonal bay to right with 2-light windows to top; large window to upper level of main gable; bellcote to right gable; block finial.

S ELEVATION: 4 bays to centre with paired windows, higher gabletted bay to left, recessed lower bay to right with paired windows.

N ELEVATION: 4 bays to centre, paired square-headed windows to lower floor, round-headed to upper floor, higher gabletted bay to right with paired windows at 3 levels, lower bay to left with door at ground floor, paired windows to upper levels.

E GABLE: various doors and windows, corniced stack.

INTERIOR: not seen.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: coped rubble to W with plain iron railings, similar railings to S and E.

Statement of Interest

An ecclesiastical building in use as such.

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