Greenbank Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 27/11/2017 Local Authority East Renfrewshire Planning Authority East Renfrewshire Parish Mearns NGR NS 57363 56824 Coordinates 257363, 656824 — Dated 1884, Greenbank Parish Church was built in the Early English Gothic style to the designs of the architect William Gardner Rowan, of McKissack and Rowan. It was extended in the 1930s by the architect, Joseph Wilson, with the addition of the present chancel and vestry. The church is largely rectangular-plan with a two-stage square-plan clock tower to the southeast corner, which features a gabled belfry and octagonal corner pinnacles. Constructed of randomly coursed stugged yellow sandstone with ashlar dressings, there are offset buttresses with gablet heads and projecting eaves courses throughout. The pointed window openings are largely Y-traceried with splayed ashlar reveals, projecting hood moulds and mainly have leaded lattice windows with stained glass. The roofs are pitched slate, terracotta ridge tiles and eaves-mounted rainwater goods. A carved Celtic cross finial surmounts the eastern gable. The east (entrance) elevation has a projecting base course and moulded cill courses. The pointed arched doorway to the right-of-centre is framed by a projecting gabled surround which has chamfered reveals, a deep moulded architrave over and flanking piers with gablets. The piers are inscribed; 'ERECTED 1884' and 'ENDOWED 1889'. The entrance door is a double-leaf boarded timber door with decorative strap hinges and a tripartite lancet window to the timber overdoor. The entrance is flanked by small pairs of windows and the principal three-light stained-glass window above has cinquefoil details to the window heads. The six-bay side elevations to the north and south are symmetrically arranged. A projecting two-s

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.