St David's Memorial Park Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 12/12/2007 Local Authority East Dunbartonshire Planning Authority East Dunbartonshire Burgh Kirkintilloch NGR NS 65346 73671 Coordinates 265346, 673671 — J Jeffrey Waddell, 1924-6, to plans by P Macgregor Chalmers, 1921. Cruciform-plan aisled Scots-Gothic church with tall, 3-stage square-plan tower with octagonal stone spire to NW corner and polygonal apse to E. Adjoining later (1910-11) single-storey gabled hall to E with 2007 extension. Squared and coursed stugged sandstone with ashlar margins. Angle buttresses, hoodmoulding, string courses to tower. 3-light geometric-tracery windows, some round-arched, with quatrefoils, set in deep chamfered openings. FURTHER DESCRIPTION: battlemented tower with Gothic-arched entrance doorway to N face with recessed 2-leaf timber and leaded glass entrance doors with multi-pane fanlight above. Paired tall belfry openings to 3rd stage. Stone water spouts and corner pinnacles. Recessed spire with small stone studs. Predominantly geometric-tracery style windows with small square lead panes. Some stained glass. Green graded slates. Raised skews. INTERIOR: fine, largely unaltered ashlar interior. 6-bay pointed-arch nave. Canted timber ceiling. Red-tiled floor. Clerestory windows. Oak-panelled choir and sanctuary. Timber pews. Decoratively carved, ensuite pulpit, communion table and choir stalls. Some fine early and mid 20th century stained glass (see Notes). BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low, coped, squared and stugged sandstone wall to N. 2 pairs of tapered, ashlar gatepiers with base course and gabled caps and carved trefoil roundels. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. St David's Memorial Park Church is a prominent well-detailed church with a tall, decorative steeple which contributes much to the streetscape o

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.