Wishaw, West Thornlie Street, Thornlie Parish Church
Church (19th Century)
Site Name Wishaw, West Thornlie Street, Thornlie Parish Church
Classification Church (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Former United Free Church
Canmore ID 200863
Site Number NS75SE 59
NGR NS 79492 54853
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/200863
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Cambusnethan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Motherwell
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS75SE 59.00 79492 54853
NS75SE 59.01 NS 79509 54867 Hall
Gothic church on corner site, cruciform-plan, gabled, square 3-stage tower with broach spire to SE corner and round 2-stage tower set-back from SW corner, gabled porch. Squared yellow sandstone coursers with ashlar margins; base course, gallery-height string course, set-back buttresses with sawtooth coping, predominantly lancet openings with hoodmoulds.
Hall: Squared and snecked sandstone coursers; large gabled hall to right, abutted to rear of church facing Caledonian Road; slightly advanced entrance porch to centre, roll-moulded chamfered reveal; kneelered skew putt, trefoil to cross, blind quatrefoil to apex, hood moulded, crossgable with stepped blind lancets. Interlocking gabled bay to left; bipartite plate traceried window; connecting passage to church with door to left.
David Thomson was based at 29 Vincent Place, Glasgow. Present church replaced the 1822 United Presbyterian Meeting House on the same site.(Historic Scotland)
Photographic Record (June 2005 - 12 September 2008)
The National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies (NADFAS) visited several churches at risk to record stained glass windows.
Information from HES Survey and Recording (HS), 13 October 2015
