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Free Church, Coulter

A Category B Listed Building in Clydesdale East, South Lanarkshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6028 / 55°36'10"N

Longitude: -3.5449 / 3°32'41"W

OS Eastings: 302763

OS Northings: 635438

OS Grid: NT027354

Mapcode National: GBR 33PN.BC

Mapcode Global: WH5T1.JF5N

Plus Code: 9C7RJF34+43

Entry Name: Free Church, Coulter

Listing Name: Coulter, Former Free Church

Listing Date: 27 April 1995

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 338330

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6665

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200338330

Location: Culter

County: South Lanarkshire

Electoral Ward: Clydesdale East

Parish: Culter

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

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Description

Dated 1843; wallheads raised and windows altered 1874 by Thomas Bisset. Rectangular-plan, simple Gothic-style aisleless former church with bellcote. Dark whinstone rubble, formerly harled to sides and rear, cream sandstone ashlar dressings, grey slate roof. Buttressed angles to front, margined angles to rear, ashlar-coped skews; pointed windows with stugged dressings to front, margined Y-traceried windows to sides, margined pointed windows to rear; ridge ventilator.

FRONT ELEVATION: ashlar-coped pedimented doorpiece to centre with

2-leaf boarded doors, roll-moulded jambs and pointed-arch overdoor

with date panel, window to left and right, large round gallery window

above with 4 round openings, bellcote at apex.

RIGHT RETURN ELEVATION: 2 windows.

LEFT RETURN ELEVATION: 2 windows, single storey piended roof vestry to left, base of stack to wallhead at right.

REAR ELEVATION: 2 windows, louvred ventilator to attic, coped finial.

INTERIOR: most pews removed, boarded dado, panelled gallery with

cast-iron columns; 2-tier pulpit with Gothic reredos-type wall panel;

decorative cast-iron balusters to gallery stairs; early 20th century

stencilling; comb ceiling; chimneypieces in vestry.

Statement of Interest

The land for the church was provided by David Dixon of Hartree and Kilbucho, who came out of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland with Dr Thomas Chalmers in 1843. The church forms a coherent historical group with Kirkwood Old Manse, Stables and Former Beadle's Cottage.

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