Pollokshields Parish Church

The Pollokshields congregation was established in 1875, with worship taking place in the church hall, which was opened on 10 October 1875. It was only on 19 May 1877 that the foundation stone was laid by Sir William Stirling Maxwell, Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. The church building was completed by 1878, when the church became a Quoad sacra parish on 5 March 1878 and named Pollokshields Established Church. The church was officially opened on 19 May 1878. The church was remodelled in 1913, when the church and hall were repainted and relighted, while the chancel was paved with marble. During renovation, and until the church was reopened on 7 September 1913, the congregation…

The church was built in the Neo-Gothic style on designs by Robert Baldie. A centre gable of was built at a height of 18 metres, with a carved finial. A steeple was built at the southwest corner, rising to a height of nearly 55 metres. The tower has a clock face on each of its four sides. The south (entrance) front has a large geometrical window above a row of trefoil headed windows with stiff leaf capitals. The side aisles have twin lancet windows beneath the clerestory of triple lancet windows to the main church. The interior has aisle arcades formed by polished granite columns on high octagonal sandstone bases with French Gothic capitals supporting pointed arches beneath the clerestory…