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Latitude: 55.8677 / 55°52'3"N
Longitude: -3.9756 / 3°58'32"W
OS Eastings: 276469
OS Northings: 665599
OS Grid: NS764655
Mapcode National: GBR 00PL.2F
Mapcode Global: WH4QB.XS14
Plus Code: 9C7RV29F+3Q
Entry Name: St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, Hallcraig Street, Airdrie
Listing Name: Hallcraig Street, St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church Including Presbytery and Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 27 March 1979
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 356128
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB20924
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Airdrie, Hallcraig Street, St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church
ID on this website: 200356128
Location: Airdrie
County: North Lanarkshire
Town: Airdrie
Electoral Ward: Airdrie Central
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Catholic church building
Wilkie and Gray, 1839. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan gabled classical church with bell tower and spire. Yellow sandstone coursed ashlar facade, squared and snecked to sides and rear. Base course, dividing band between ground and 1st floor, narrow eaves course, projecting cornice and blocking course. Projecting cills to windows.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay with giant pilasters dividing bays. Regular fenestration, door to centre with consoled canopy. Entablature supporting pedimented gable, oculi to tympanum. Square-plan bell tower, projecting quoins, continuous moulded string course below semicircular-arched openings, projecting cornice, balustraded parapet, and corner piers with ogee caps. Octagonal spire with stone cross finial.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: blind gable end, ruinous side wall of former lean-to addition abutting to far left, gable stack.
E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 4-bay, tall semicircular-arched windows. Advanced gabled porch to outer left bay, window above blocked; semicircular-arched doorway to centre, cross finial to apex of gable; semicircular-arched window to left return; small 2-bay lean-to right return.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: mirror to E except small advanced gabled bay between 1st and 2nd bay to left. Presbytery abutting to SW corner.
PRESBYTERY: 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-gabled house. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble. Base course, eaves course, projecting cornice, projecting cills to windows.
S (HALLCRAIG STREET) ELEVATION: regular fenestration, large box dormer to roof.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: slightly irregular fenestration, modern, single flat-roofed addition to left. Large box dormer.
E (SIDE) ELEVATION: irregular fenestration, outer right bay incorporated into S elevation of church, timber panelled door, letterbox fanlight above.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind gable end. Modern windows. Grey slates, lead flashing. Coped gable stacks, coped raised skews. INTERIOR: not seen 2001.
BOUNDARY WALL: low wall, squared sandstone courses, saddleback coping, modern railings above.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Typical of the fine classical churches produced by the Catholic denomination in the earlier 19th century.
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