Holy Trinity and St Barnabas Church, Excluding Church Halls to South, St James' Street, Paisley

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 21/01/2015 Local Authority Renfrewshire Planning Authority Renfrewshire Burgh Paisley NGR NS 48220 64330 Coordinates 248220, 664330 — James Drummond, 1828-33 with David Thomson, 1884 chancel. Rectangular-plan, symmetrical, Tudor-Gothic Episcopal church with crenelated west gable with pinnacled buttresses and distinctive tall lancet windows to nave, in prominent location at the head of St James Place. Sandstone ashlar to west and margins with rubble to side elevation and stugged, snecked sandstone to chancel. Base course, eaves course, chamfered window margins and some hoodmoulding to windows and entrance doorway. Tripartite pointed-arch window to west gable. Gabled chancel adjoining east end of church with lower gabled vestry outshot to north. Predominantly diamond-pane leaded glazing and stained glass windows. Grey slates. The interior was seen in 2014. Shallow pointed arch roof to nave with plain rib vaulting resting on timber cornice. Timber balcony at west end, supported on slim iron columns and with decorative gothic balustrade. Stained glass in west window by Colin Stevenson, 2004. Red sandstone chancel arch supported by engaged Corinthian columns and flanked by lower pointed-arch openings. Low, carved oak chancel screen as War Memorial, 1921 and timber choir stalls. Chancel has braced roof and Minton tiles on floor and walls around altar. Marble and alabaster Gothic rederos. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Holy Trinity and St Barnabas Episcopal Church was built in 1833 and has an 1884 chancel. It is amongst the first Episcopal churches built in Scotland following the repeal of penal laws against the church in 1795 and is a notable example of neo-Gothic architecture for its date in Paisley. The 1833 phase is rare in its survival as

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.