Calton Old Parish Church and Halls, 122 Helenvale Street, Glasgow

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 23/03/1992 Supplementary Information Updated 26/07/2023 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 62433 63848 Coordinates 262433, 663848 — Hutton & Taylor, 1934-5. Neo-Romanesque, Church of Scotland church with double height nave and single storey aisles, transverse aisle and narrow saddleback campanile to NE, 3-bay transept aisle to SE. Pair of single-storey halls in T-plan arrangement attached to S end. Red brick. Base course, brick mutules at wall- and gableheads. Round-headed windows with brick voussoirs. N ELEVATION: entrance front, with pair of doorways beneath trio of stepped lancet windows. Single window to NE aisle. E ELEVATION: paired round-headed windows to clerestorey. Rectangular windows to aisle. Single lancet to NE transept. Trio of lancets to SE transept. S elevation: apsidal projection with dropped roof. Trio of lancets with coloured glass. Square chimneystack rising from ground. N hall, with flank to E: 3 sets of windows in Serlian arrangement, breaking through eaves. S hall, with gable to E: Serlian arrangement on gable. S elevation harled and with lancets breaking through eaves. Multi-pane leaded glazing, some coloured glass. Rosemary tiles. INTERIOR: basilica arrangement with brick arcades supported on grey stone columns. Plastered barrel vault with brick ridges and timber tie beams. Dias beneath chancel arch. Timber pews, pulpit and fittings. Transverse arrangement of pews in aisles. Stained glass includes crucifixion in chancel (1970) and St Luke in aisle (1971), by Gordon Webster. BOUNDARY WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS: dwarf walls with metal railings and gates to boundary. — Place of worship in use as such. Parkhead Church is a good early to mid 20th century example of the Neo-Romanesque style in Gl

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.