page_title: Mossend
section_title: Holy Family Roman Catholic Church
hierarchical_section_title: Mossend / Holy Family Roman Catholic Church
caption_attribution_description: English: Holy Family Catholic Church Mossend, built in 1884, designed by Pugin and Pugin, Westminister.
context_page_description: Mossend is a town on the A775, in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, to the east of its sister town Bellshill, and to the west of the large town of Motherwell.
  The town is the site of a major railway freight terminal. The yard is primarily used by DB Cargo UK. Mossend formed around the steel industry, with Clydesdale Steel Works once dominating the east end of the town.
  It is also home to the Mossend Football Club, a local community football club for children from the age of 6 to 21 years old.
context_section_description: One of the most striking buildings in Mossend is the church of the Holy Family, which was designed by architects Pugin and Pugin of Wesminister. It was built in 1884 to replace the smaller earlier Catholic church which remains standing beside it. The original Pugin designs envisaged a 124 ft high spire, which was never completed.
  The first church building - a chapel school - was completed in 1868 and could seat up to 500 parishioners, a chapel-house was soon added in 1872 and a large addition to the chapel-school in 1883. These buildings are still standing and form what is now the Parochial Hall. In 1883 work began on the erection of a new church which was formally opened on 16 November 1884. The church was at the time described in the Scottish Catholic Directory as "A very beautiful church designed by Messrs Pugin and Pugin, Westminster ... one of the neatest, most chaste and elegant in this part of the country... accommodating upwards of 800 worshipers."
caption: Holy Family R.C Church Mossend
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