A new church was built in 1902/03 to replace one further along the street. The architects were Alexander Hinshelwood & John Forrest Steel and it is an Arts & Crafts style. The hall was enlarged and a classroom added in 1928/29 by John Steel. At the union with the Church of Scotland in 1929 it became Cambusnethan North Parish Church.
The building is aligned north north west/south south east with a tower and stair tower on west(say) wall. It is built in red rock-faced sandstone with fair-faced dressings. The roofs are slated. The exception is the modern hall extension which has pebble-dash and a flatroof.
The north gable has three rectangular leaded windows with upper embellishment. The main window is a pointed arch and contains five pointed trefoil windows and in the space above there narrow decorated string course and the a "burning bush" set in a "niche" with crocketted finials and to the side blind round-lobed quatrefoils within circles. The gable has pairs of corner stepped buttresses at ground floor level.
The east side has five bays with tall pointed arch windows containing Y-tracery and then the one bay east transept.
The west side has one bay followed by the tower with side stairwell tower. The tower entrance has a flat arch with a hood moulding and a floral decorated arch moulding. Adjacent to the entrance is a pair of ground floor corner buttresses. The second stage has a small rectangular leaded window. The third stage has trios of louvred lancet windows between heavy corner pillars which rise above the battlemented parapet. The short slated spire has a square lead cap. The stair tower has small rectangular leaded windows.
The west wall then has another two bays prior to the west transept which has a trio of graded lancet windows.
The rear hall lies transversely and has trio of graded lancet windows oin it gable.
A pipe organ by J W Walker & Sons was installed in 1966 and overhauled in 1994 by Michael Macdonald.
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Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae - 1929 -1954 - Vol IX : John Alexander Lamb : 1954 : Oliver & Boyd
Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae - 1955 -1975 - Vol X : Donald Farquhar Macleod Macdonald : 1976 : St Andrew’s Press
Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae - 1976 -1999 - Vol X : Finlay Angus John Macdonald : 2000 : T & T Clark, Edinburgh
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Buildings of Scotland - Lanarkshire & Renfrewshire : Rob Close, John Gifford & Frank Arneil Walker : 2016 : Yale University Press
Canmore : https://canmore.org.uk/site/199751/cambusnethan-kirk-road-north-parish-church
Dictionary of Scottish Architects : https://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/apex/r/dsa/dsa/buildings?p9_id=222675&clear=9&session=13729918372070
National Pipe Organ Register: https://npor.org.uk/survey/N18144
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Name : Cambusnethan North Church of Scotland, Cambusnethan, North Lanarkshire
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