Description

Peter MacGregor Chalmers; Scots/German neo-Romanesque church, designed 1895, built in stages as follows; hall and vestries 1908, nave and porch 1911-12, chancel 1922-2; tower completed 1934-5 by Gordon Galloway of Whyte and Galloway (Chalmers died 1922). Long flank to Newlands Road, nave, gable roofed S side aisle; nave gable to Langside Road has spirelets over angles, tall apse with open arcade below eaves (apse at E gable also); square tower is almost detached, placed to left of nave gable, ghas 4 stages, main entrance at foot, open belfry stage at top; to left of tower, beyond, open archway links to gabled HALL, which has 3 stepped lights in gable to street. All built of rock-faced snecked grey ashlar, polished dressings, round-arched lights, mostly with recessed margins, green slate roofs.

INTERIOR: walls also snecked ashalr, nave has timber barrel-vault, aisle arcades, mosaics in apses. Some figurative leaded glass windows, 3 windows by Morris and Company, sanctuary windows by Powell and Son, 1950, 3 windows by Gordon Webster 1950-4.

Enclosed by wrought-iron railings, plain widely-spaced rails, slightly more ornament at gates and railings.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17815224

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)