King's Park Church, 242 Castlemilk Road

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/05/2005 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 60103 60840 Coordinates 260103, 660840 — Hutton & Taylor, 1931-2 with later flat-roofed hall addition with screen entrance by Honeyman, Jack & Robertson, circa 1950 (further hall addition by Grant Design, 1997) forming inner courtyard. Well-detailed and carefully proportioned originally cruciform-plan with bellcote at crossing Romanesque church. Aisled nave with clerestory, round-headed openings and striking unusual use of banded red brick with yellow ashlar. Fine interior with good collection of 20th century stained glass. E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical elevation. Central gabled section with tripartite round-arched arcade supported by engaged columns with cushion capitals, all with different Celtic interlace design. Recessed central timber panel with leaded pane glazing to upper centre flanked by pair of 2-leaf 8-panel timber doors. Above, pair of long stained glass windows with blind niche at apex of gable. Gable has dentil detailing. Distinctive raised banded quoins, with pair of ironwork lamps and inscription to left with lettering, 'THIS STONE LAID BY JOHN A. MACTAGGART ESQ. 6TH JUNE 1931'. Leaded panes and stained glass to church. Metal-framed paned windows with top and bottom hoppers to circa 1950 hall addition. Rosemary tiles to roof. INTERIOR: brick. Aisled with chancel; arcaded nave with simple stone columns with cushion and scallop capitals. Clerestory with whitewashed vaulted ceiling. Transepts have discrete roller shutters to divide the space (see Notes). Oak communion table (original communion table now in entrance hall), pulpit and lectern. Circular stone font. Timber chairs. Good collection of 20th century stained glass, from 1930s onwards, inclu

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.