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Cumbernauld Church Building: St Mungo’s Fire
Modern Religious Buildings in Scottish New Town, Scotland, UK.
post updated 6 August 2025
The destruction of a Cumbernauld church in a fire will have lasting repercussions, reports the BBC Scotland today.
The blaze wiped out the St Mungo’s Church building on Saturday night. The fire came just over a week after another one destroyed the nearby Cumbernauld Cottage Theatre.
St Mungo’s Cumbernauld church building photos © Adrian Welch
Community groups that used the church for events are now trying to find replacement space.
There were no injuries in the blaze, which took until Sunday to put out.
Sadly many of the original landmarks and heritage of the North Lanarkshire new town are disappearing. Arson, such as in the recent blaze at a four-storey building on King Street, Kilmarnock, is very hard to prevent.
The 1960s church, designed by Scottish architect Alan Reiach, is a B-listed building – meaning it is classed as being of regional or local importance.
The Cumbernauld Gaelic Choir have used the church as a rehearsal space for three years every Monday night, singing and learning Gaelic.
The St Mungo’s Church building was part of Trinity Parish Church, a union formed from Cumbernauld Old Church and Kildrum and St Mungo’s churches in August 2024.
The Church of Scotland will have to consider what is the best course of action now.
Photos of Cumbernauld Churches:
Location: central Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld Church Buildings
Location: south Cumbernauld
Location: south Cumbernauld
All church photos © Adrian Welch
Church, Kildrum, Cumbernauld
Date: 1960s
Design: Alan Reiach & Partners, Architects
Status: B-listed property
Cumbernauld Shopping Centre
photo © Adrian Welch
Cumbernauld Centre – Introduction
Cumbernauld Houses
photo © Adrian Welch
Cumbernauld, Scotland
Cumbernauld is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth most-populous locality in Scotland and the most populated town in North Lanarkshire, positioned in the centre of Scotland’s Central Belt.
Geographically, Cumbernauld sits between east and west, being on the Scottish watershed between the Forth and the Clyde; however, it is culturally more weighted towards Glasgow and the New Town’s planners aimed to fill 80% of its houses from Scotland’s largest city to reduce housing pressure there.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbernauld
Glasgow Church Buildings
Major Religious Building Designs in the city:
St Vincent Street Church, St Vincent St, central/west Glasgow
photograph © AW
Gorbals Parish Church
Design: ADF Architects
photo © Keith Hunter Photography
Church of St Paul the Apostle – category B-listed
photo © Andrew Lee
Caledonia Road Church, Gorbals, south Glasgow
Queens Cross Church, Garscube
Architect: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Queen’s Park Church, Langside Road
Architect: Alexander “Greek” Thomson
Ruchill Free Church Halls, Ruchill St / Shakespeare St
Date built: 1899
Architect: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Destiny Church Glasgow, Pollockshaws Road, south side of the city centre: Refurbishment design
Design: NORD Architects
Glasgow Building Designs
Contemporary Glasgow Property Designs – recent architectural selection from this website below:
Candleriggs Square Apartments Merchant City
image courtesy of architects practice
Glasgow School of Art Building at 167 Renfrew Street, designed by famous Scottish architect Rennie Mackintosh
Golfhill Public School Dennistoun Flats
Moore Street housing development, East End of Glasgow
Design: Richard Murphy Architects
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