Congregational Church, 339 Eglinton Street, Glasgow

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 17/06/1986 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 58546 63780 Coordinates 258546, 663780 — John Burnet, Snr. Dated 1866. Gothic church, rectangular plan with tower and spire. Coursed stugged rubble, ashlar dressings. Gable end to street has pair of pointed arched doorways, central column with stiff leafed capital. Diagonally boarded wooden doors with foliated iron hinges, moulded reveals and hoodmoulds. Angel heads set in stone over doors. Diminutive buttresses and small cusped windows. Original Gothic detailed cast-iron railings. Low crow-stepped projection on left. String course forms cill to triple-light geometrical traceried window (vesica above), stepped up as hoodmould over small tower window. Star of David missing from apex of gable. Square tower with broached spire over louvred lantern, gargoyles and tapered spire of chevron banded masonry. Pointed and stilted doorway at base with dripmould and modern door. S elevation: trefoil cusped lancets separated by buttresses with Gothic cast-iron railings. Basement hall windows blocked. Gable with stack, 2 cusped lights and vesica. East rose window blocked above small modern brick addition. — Internally renovated 1895: entire E wall a veil of gold with polychrome vertical bands in Romanesque/Byzantine style. Architect W J Anderson. Painter J Moodie. No longer in Ecclesiastical use.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.