Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

JOHNSTON STREET, FLOWERHILL PARISH CHURCH, CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, INCLUDING CHURCH HALL AND MANSELB20932

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
05/08/1988
Local Authority
North Lanarkshire
Planning Authority
North Lanarkshire
Burgh
Airdrie
NGR
NS 76460 65529
Coordinates
276460, 665529

Description

Matthew Forsyth, 1872-5. Broadly gabled, rectangular-plan, Italianate church with campanile to SW corner. Squared and snecked sandstone. Base course, gallery-height continuous string course. Semicircular-arched openings.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay, stop-hoodmoulded openings. Clasped buttresses and small windows flanking central door. Large geometric traceried rose window. Jettied gable head, 3 blind arrow slits above, stone cross finial at apex of gable.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: obscured by abutting manse and hall.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 7-bay. Regular fenestration, small square windows to ground, bipartite, geometric traceried gallery windows. Stone steps to canopied, square-headed, door to outer bay to right, small rectangular window below 4-light window. Projecting 4-stage, square-plan bell tower to outer left bay: stone steps to canopied, square-headed, door; small canopied square window to 2nd stage; small bipartite window to 3rd stage, plain entablature above, 3 arrow slits to architrave, inscribed to S, BEGUN APRIL 1872 FINISHED JUNE 1875. Blind arcade to 4th stage, open Venetian window to centre, flanked by paired oculi. Projecting cornice, tiled pyramidal roof, cast-iron cross finial.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: mirror of S.

Square-pane leaded windows. Grey slates. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: plain galleried interior, redecorated 1900.

MANSE: 2-storey, 4-bay, L-plan, gabled manse, S facing. Squared and snecked sandstone courses. Advanced gabled, double bay to left, 2-storey advanced canted window to centre. Door to centre, small window above. 3-light, stone mullioned window to right bay, canopied bipartite window above. Irregular fenestration to side and rear, abutting church to E. Grey slates, pantile ridging. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

CHURCH HALL: 3-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled hall abutting rear elevation of church. Squared and snecked sandstone courses, glazed oculi.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Forsyth was a native of Airdrie practising in Glasgow. The Italianate detail and campanile suggest the influence of Charles Wilson.

References

Bibliography

A Peden, THE MONKLANDS AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE, 1992, p 13. G Thompson, AIRDRIE, A BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH, 1971.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

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