Church of Our Holy Redeemer, Glasgow Road, Clydebank

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 23/07/1987 Local Authority West Dunbartonshire Planning Authority West Dunbartonshire Burgh Clydebank NGR NS 50198 69512 Coordinates 250198, 669512 — Peter Paul Pugin, 1903, extended Pugin and Pugin, 1907 (see Notes). Nave and aisles RC church with gable to street, and with remarkable series of leaded glass windows. Gothic. Built of bull-faced red ashlar with polished dressings. Main gabled elevation has 5 tall lancets - the inner taller - and 2 doors; buttresses, those at angles carried above eaves and gabletted; aisle end walls not given identical treatment. Chancel, side chapels and baptistry. Slate roofs. Elaborate interior, with distinctive high altar and reredos with sculptured figures and canopied niches; stations of the Cross by Morgari of Turin; aisle arcades on octagonal columns; wooden shrine to the Madonna of Perpetual Succour brought from Rome. PRESBYTERY: 1895, Peter Paul Pugin, extended 1907, Pugin and Pugin. Adjoining chancel; 2 storeys, 3 bays, also bull-faced red ashlar and with mullioned windows, piended slate roof. Boundary walls with stone piers, iron railings. — Place of Worship in use as such. This church and adjoining presbytery are an excellent example of the Glasgow church designs of the important firm of British architects, Pugin & Pugin. Well-decorated and detailed externally, the church and presbytery have significant streetscape presence in the area. The presbytery was built in 1895 and later extended in 1907 to join the church. The south aisle of the church was slightly extended in 1907 with the addition of two further confessionals. There is a 1867 Mirrlees organ in the church, installed in 1996, and originally from St Joseph's, North Woodside Road, Glasgow (now demolished). Under the direction of Peter Paul Pugin, t

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.