General exterior view of church

Description General exterior view of church

Date 1977

Catalogue Number LA 1962

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 716195

Scope and Content St Bride's Roman Catholic Church, Whitemoss Avenue, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire St Bride's Roman Catholic Church was built 1963-4 to designs by the architectural firm of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia. The church is a large rectangular brick structure, entered via a cleft in the façade. A 27.4m high campanile (bell tower) was dismantled in 1986 after becoming unsafe. The church is linked to a low range of sacristy (building for storing sacred vessels and garments) and presbytery (priest's accommodation) buildings by a tunnel. This shows the church from the rear, its high brick walls decorated with bands of raised brickwork and recessed drainage heads and guttering (left). The rear of the building features three copper-clad dormers, which focus light down onto the altar area within. The top of the campanile (bell tower) can just be seen over the top of the flat roof. This large church seats up to 800 worshippers in a space lit by daylight filtering through the slatted wooden ceiling and dormers. A free-standing gallery provides extra seating above the baptistry, side chapels and confessionals. This building has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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