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Latitude: 55.863 / 55°51'46"N
Longitude: -4.3106 / 4°18'38"W
OS Eastings: 255492
OS Northings: 665724
OS Grid: NS554657
Mapcode National: GBR 07L.81
Mapcode Global: WH3P1.RWJR
Plus Code: 9C7QVM7Q+5Q
Entry Name: St Mary's Church, Govan Cross, Glasgow
Listing Name: 2 Water Row, Govan Cross, New Govan Church of Scotland, Former St Mary's Church.
Listing Date: 15 May 1987
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 376979
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33358
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Govan Cross, St Mary's Church
ID on this website: 200376979
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Govan
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Church building
Robert Baldie, 1873. Gothic 3-gable facade, snecked
rubble. Wide central gable contains 3 pointed arched
doorways with chevron panelled doors, geometrical tracery
in tympana. 3 geometrical traceried 2-light windows
above, with simple stained glass, vesica and cross finial.
2 angle buttresses with pinnacles. Smaller flanking
gables, each with 2 lancets and a quatrefoil. Celtic cross
finial to S gable, missing from N gable. Angle buttresses
with smaller pinnacles. Slate roof and small
square-section louvred bell tower with steep pyramidal
roof and iron finial.
Side elevations rubble with 5 tall geometric traceried
windows, simple stained glass and oculus. Rubble rear
contains small rose window.
Interior: horseshoe gallery on bell-capital cast-iron
columns. Ceiling at rear of gallery carried by 4 stiff
leafed-capital iron columns. Prominent organ behind
wooden pulpit. Flat ceiling divided into panels by timber
beams springing from corbels with dogtooth moulding.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Contains the
congregations of and some plaques and windows from St.
Columba's, Fairfield, St. Kiarans/Dean Park, and Trinity,
Summerton Road Churches. Formerly listed as 2, 4 Greenwell Street. Greenwell Street has been removed in its entirety.
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