Motherwell Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Good Aid, is a Roman Catholic church in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, and the seat of the Bishop of Motherwell. Pugin & Pugin designed it in the Gothic Revival style, similar to other Catholic churches the firm built in Scotland, England and Ireland. Work began in 1899, and the church opened on December 9, 1900. It seats 1,000 people.
It became a cathedral in 1948, when the Diocese of Motherwell was created. The church originally had a high altar, two side altars and ornate decoration, but most of it was lost in a reordering of the sanctuary in 1984 after the Second Vatican Council.
The organ was renovated in 2008 and electronically modified with a new console. It has four manuals and is the largest organ in any Roman Catholic church in the west of Scotland.
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