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Kinfauns Centre, 436 Kinfauns Drive, Glasgow

A Category B Listed Building in Glasgow, Glasgow

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9135 / 55°54'48"N

Longitude: -4.3562 / 4°21'22"W

OS Eastings: 252828

OS Northings: 671439

OS Grid: NS528714

Mapcode National: GBR 3N.0DSH

Mapcode Global: WH3NV.1MWJ

Plus Code: 9C7QWJ7V+9G

Entry Name: Kinfauns Centre, 436 Kinfauns Drive, Glasgow

Listing Name: 436 Kinfauns Drive, Kinfauns Centre, Former Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints

Listing Date: 2 April 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389365

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43032

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: 436 Kinfauns Drive, Kinfauns Centre

ID on this website: 200389365

Location: Glasgow

County: Glasgow

Town: Glasgow

Electoral Ward: Drumchapel/Anniesland

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

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Description

John Easton, 1961-4. Shallow-pitched church of 2 interlocked blocks with Modern Movement details, converted to community centre. Rendered and painted. Contrasting painted brick fins centring bays. Eaves swept up as canopy.

N ELEVATION: advanced lower section approximately 13-bay with fins adjoined to mullions of bipartite windows in each of bays flanking off-centre entrance and to left of single window to outer left. Broad entrance bay comprised of doorways flanked by ?Empire Exhibition? style Art Deco fin with horizontal flange ornament at mid height of fin emerging from rendered pier. 10-bay taller block behind with clerestorey windows, mostly bipartite with dividing piers (material as fins).

E AND W ELEVATIONS: shallow gable ends of lower, longer block to Kinfauns Drive each with door at centre under canopied porch echoing roof form and flanked by narrow windows; W gable with door and windows on return to S. Taller W gable with central stack breaking apex in painted chimneyhead.

S ELEVATION: 10-bay, taller block, tall window panels to each bay (mostly bipartite with full-height dividing fins, all with clerestorey window in upper part), doors equally dispersed over 3 bays; tier of

3 square windows to each outer bay.

Sheet metal roofing. Fixed and pivot metal windows.

INTERIOR: community centre (not seen, 1995).

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such.

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