Langside Hill Church, 16 Algie Street, Glasgow

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 15/12/1970 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 57798 61717 Coordinates 257798, 661717 — Alexander Skirving 1894-6 as free church, but now (1989) empty and neglected. Built on prominent site on Langside Hill. Main temple front to Battle Place with "Thomsonesque" treatment, projecting wide triple-entrance porch with Ionic hexastyle portico set above with acroteria and uncarved tympanum; side aisles more Roman than Greek, recessed on flanks behind curved staircase bays, these channelled at ground, windows above separated by pilasters; aisles with outer pediments and round-arched gallery windows. Built mostly of snecked and squared rubble, dressings and main front all polished ashlar; slated or concealed roof. Halls at rear. Enclosed by stone boundary retaining walls, these stepped to slope and with good quality cast-iron railings with anthemion detail; gatepiers channelled ashlar, piers at main front with decorative cast-iron lamp brackets. — Disused, no longer in ecclesiastical use. Gomme and Walker point out that this was Glasgow's last classical church. Skirving had once worked with Alexander Thomson. Formerly 122 Langside Avenue

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.