Description

Alexander Cullen, 1904. Rectangular-plan, asymmetrical gabled gothic church. Bell tower with caphouse to NW corner, fleche to nave. Red bull-faced, coursed squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar margins.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Base course, cill height stringcourses, and eaves course. Chamfered reveals and stopped hoodmoulds to openings. Gabled nave to centre; 3 small lancets to ground, tall tripartite lancets to gallery, jettied gablehead with oculus, blocking buttresses. Stone steps to pointed arch door, centre of right bay; shouldered stringcourse to recessed panel above, inset tall lancet. Slightly advanced 4-stage square-plan bell tower to left bay; stone steps to pointed arch door, slightly projecting gabled hood to ground, blind to left return; paired lancets to 2nd stage, single lancet to return; blind 3rd stage; louvered bipartite lancets to 4th stage, corbelled and crenellated parapet; crowstep gabled caphouse, small arrowslit to gablehead.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: brick with red ashlar sandstone margins; tripartite tall lancets to centre. Single storey, flat roof, church hall adjoining to ground.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 4-bay with bell tower to outer right; set back buttresses between bays; paired square windows to ground; paired lancets to gallery.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: mirror of NW except shouldered gabled bay to outer left; tall, narrow lancet above small square window with continuous cill course, jettied gablehead.

INTERIOR: plain galleried interior open to hammerbeam roof.

Rectangular leaded glass. Grey slates, lead flashing. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building still in use as such. St Andrews parish church merged with Dalziel parish church with the congregation established at Dalziel. The Calvary Evangelists now run the building as a Christian Outreach Centre. A later building by Cullen, who died in 1911, showing adherence to the Scottish National Revival style after experiments with the emerging Glasgow School such as Thornlie Manse, Wishaw (see separate listing).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77776624

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings