John Ross Memorial Church For The Deaf, 158-168 West Regent Street, Glasgow

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 15/12/1970 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 58587 65732 Coordinates 258587, 665732 — CHURCH: Norman A Dick (Burnet Son and Dick) circa 1929. INSTITUTE: Robert Duncan 1893-4. The 2 buildings integrated. 6 x 5 bays 3 storeys and basement. Polished ashlar plinth. Sash and case window with plate glass. Ground floor cornice; 1st floor cornice forming 2nd floor cill band; plain eaves entablature; slate roof. ELEVATION TO WEST GEORGE STREET: church; 3 western bays, advanced in centre and ground floor outer bays; ogee hoodmoulded entrance with label stops, blocked archivolt, flanked by 2 narrow hoodmoulded lights; outer bays plain recessed margined windows repeated at 1st floor with string courses between. 1st floor central applied gable surmounted by cross, flanked by tabernacles with corbels rising through buttresses; plain 2 and 1-light regular 2nd floor lights. INSTITUTE: 3 eastern bays to West George Street; canted outer bays; through ground and 1st floors; central entrance at head of steps oversailing basement area, flanking polygonal piers, corniced gablet enclosing, with ball finials; arched entry with coupled colonettes, sculpted archivolt; raised, architraved panel above with antefixae and acroterion, lettering "INSTITUTE FOR ADULT DEAF AND DUMB" Outer bays ground floor with moulded cill band, panelled aprons, margined windows, repeated above with decorated pilaster strips and arched windows; 3rd floor solid decorated balconies, recessed windows with pilaster mullions; pepper-pot turrets rising through steep hipped roof. ELEVATION TO WEST CAMPBELL STREET: bays arranged 1-3-1 with lower entrance bay to N, blank 1st bay from S with panelling, large stack at gable head with antefixae. Central bays: ground floor

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.