Barony North Church, 14-20 Cathedral Square, Glasgow

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 15/12/1970 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 60212 65399 Coordinates 260212, 665399 — John Honeyman, architect, 1878. Italianate Baroque church with tower to NW and apsidal narthex to N gable. Rectangular church with galleried interior and extensive basements. 6-bay regular W front with advanced taller outside bays (that to N rising to tower). Polished cream sandstone, all stonecleaned. Rough rusticated to basement, channelled to ground. W ELEVATION: entrance to SW round-arched, keystoned with vermiculated rusticated surrounds. Recessed double-leaf panelled doors. Basement windows depressed arch with keystone. Square-headed to ground with bold voussoirs. Main windows (to gallery) tall round-arched with pilastered reveals and moulded archivolts, margin-pane glazing. Outer bays channelled to 1st, pedimented niches with statues. To inner bays pilasters divide bays with engaged Corinthian columns which support impost block. Richly moulded eaves band with dentil course, deep mutuled cornice. Balustraded parapet with statues. Piended slate roofs. To SW angle taller end bay balancing tower, solid tall parapet with advanced angles rising to urn finials. Tower rises for 2 stages above eaves, pilastered 1st stage with niches, cornice over. Top stage pilastered tempietto with urns at base angles. Octagonal dome with diminutive lantern rising to cross finial. N ELEVATION: full-height apsidal 3-light narthex with pilastered windows. E ELEVATION: squared rubble with 5 arched lights. INTERIOR: richly finished interior, U-plan galleries to 3 sides supported on slender cast-iron columns, gallery front panelled, stencilled and partly gilded. To S, elaborate carved raised pulpit on raised dais with magnificent organ with partly s

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.