John Street United Presbyterian Church, 27 Cochrane Street, Glasgow

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 15/12/1970 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 59436 65275 Coordinates 259436, 665275 — J T Rochead, architect, 1859. Former John Street Church, United Presbyterians. Palazzo style Italianate former Church, now converted to bar at ground, 1st floor still (1988) derelict with much of the interior fittings gutted. 3-storeys and basement, 11 bays to John Street, 7 bays to Cochrane Street. Polished ashlar, stonecleaned, bold rustication to ground. End bays to each facade shallow advanced with round-arched doorways in Gibbsian surround and central console supporting bracket keystones. Elaborate panelled doors. All ground floor openings have moulded recessed reveals, windows with plate glass glazing. Double-height 1st floor, formerly galleried Church. End bays flanked by pilasters, solid masonry with elaborately architraved blind niches. To inner bays Ionic colonnade with full-height windows directly glazed between columns, giving the effect of engaged columns emerging from a glass wall. Leaded glazing pattern some acid etched glass. Decorative frieze over doors, cornice over ground, Columns support entablature and mutule cornice. Deep panelled parapet with intermediate die piers, some conceal chimneys and have single octagonal cans. Piended slate roofs originally with octagonal ventilators. Harled rubble flank to E, with 5 (of 9) colonnaded windows intact, others have been blocked by adjoining building now (1988) demolished. INTERIOR: inserted ground floor replacing original interior. Resulting upper floor partially gutted, with steel beams inserted for proposed additional floor, adjoined to massive columns with ornate Ionic capitals. 9-bay windows divided by columns to E and W (the latter partly blocked) and 5-bay to

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.