Summary Record

Event ID 980781

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Summary Record

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ARCHITECT: Gillespie Kidd & Coia 1963-4

Partner in charge: Jack Coia. Architectural staff: A. MacMillan, C. MacCallum, I. Metzstein, J. Cowell.

Designed for the diocese of Motherwell. Overlooking Laigh Common, adjoining Platthorn (later St Bride's High) school. Seating capacity 700. 90-foot campanile. Plan expressed by a single volume enclosed by massive load-bearing brick walls. Interior lit by roof glazing. Brick walls pierced, recessed and modelled. Facing brick also used internally. Floor covered with large-scale stone paving. Timber slats on the ceiling conceal space frames and glazing. High altar has concealed natural lighting from 'dormer' projecting above roofline. Extensive use of varnished pine; altars, pulpit and font of natural stone. Campanile demolished 1983 owing to defective brickwork.

A M Doak 1959; A R 1961; G Stamp 2000