McNab Presbyterian Church, Hamilton

MacNab Street Presbyterian Church began in 1854 as a Free Church congregation. A simple wooden building was first put up that year. The present stone church followed soon after, with its foundation stone laid in 1856 by Isaac Buchanan, and services starting around 1857. Although the street carries the name of Sir Allan Napier MacNab, the congregation itself was formed through Presbyterian leadership and has remained Presbyterian ever since.

Built in the Gothic Revival style, the church uses Dundas and Ancaster limestone. Pointed-arch windows and buttresses shape its vertical design, and the tower, planned with a spire, remains flat-topped. The original architect is unknown, though often linked to Albert H. Hills or William Thomas. A Manse was added in 1871 and a School Building in 1878, while the sanctuary changed little.

In the 1930s, the interior was redesigned. Floors were lowered, side galleries were removed, and a wide centre aisle was created. Nine stained-glass windows by Scottish artists William Wilson and James Ballantyne bring colour into the space. The Casavant Frères organ, installed in 1934 with two manuals and later expanded to three, replaced an earlier 1877 instrument while keeping some of its original pipes.