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Latitude: 55.846 / 55°50'45"N
Longitude: -4.4255 / 4°25'31"W
OS Eastings: 248234
OS Northings: 664084
OS Grid: NS482640
Mapcode National: GBR 3K.4P1T
Mapcode Global: WH3P5.ZBS6
Plus Code: 9C7QRHWF+CQ
Entry Name: Former St John's Church, School Wynd, Paisley
Listing Name: School Wynd St John's Church (C of S)
Listing Date: 27 March 1985
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384660
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39112
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Paisley, School Wynd, Former St John's Church
ID on this website: 200384660
Location: Paisley
County: Renfrewshire
Town: Paisley
Electoral Ward: Paisley East and Central
Traditional County: Renfrewshire
Tagged with: Church building
James Salmon and Son architects. 1862-3. 2nd pointed Gothic;
rectangular plan with semi-octagonal apse. Snecked rubble
with ashlar dressings. Gabled front with bold inner
buttresses, capped by octagonal turrets with pierced
ornament, and spirelets, ard angle buttresses capped by
pyramidal pinnacles. Central door of 3-order pointed arch,
2 with nook shafts and stiff-leaf capitals. 5-light
window with plate tracery over. Lancets with plate tracery
to aisles. 6-bay sides divided by buttresess. Lancets as
front to bays nearest front, with door below on left side,
2-light window with quatrefoil to 5 remaining bays.
Parapet pierced by quatrefoils. End buttresses pinnacled.
Taller apse with lancets to 3 full facets and pierced
parapet. Slate roof with bands in fish-scale pattern.
Interior has galleries to 3 sides with colonettes to ground.
Organ in apse. Hammerbeam roof.
Eccleciastical building in use as such.
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