St James' Church of Scotland, Underwood Road, Paisley

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 26/02/1971 Supplementary Information Updated 19/04/2024 Local Authority Renfrewshire Planning Authority Renfrewshire Burgh Paisley NGR NS 47741 64405 Coordinates 247741, 664405 — 1880. H J Blanc, architect. 1st and 2nd pointed Gothic, cruciform church with steeple. Snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Nave and aisles gabled front. Paired central doors under carved lintel with moulded reveals and nook shafts gabled and buttressed, flanked by coupled lancets. Above rise 3 lancets with stilted arches, flanked by angle buttresses with conical pinnacles. Lean-to aisle to west with lancet and angles buttresses. To east connecting passage to steeple with 2 tiers of triple lancets. Angle buttressed tower in 6 stages, separated by string courses and spire. Variety of windows in 4 lower stages; louvred arcading in 5th stage; 6th stage octagonal with louvred lancets and octagonal pinnacles. Facetted spire with 4 lucarnes. 4-bay nave separated by buttresses. Coupled lancets to aisle. 2-light with sexfoils to clerestory. Double gabled transepts. Triple lancets to each gable, those to east transept with stilted arches and clustered colonnettes. Semi-octagonal apse with lancets. Halls, and vestry clustered around north end. Original hall to NW extended 2 bays by Blanc 1904. Slate roof tiles to all parts with crest tiles to Church and 1st hall, fleche over crossing of church. Interior: nave arcades with moulded pointed arches with clerestory over. Rear west bay occupied by narthex with glazed wooden traceried screen of arches supported by column and half columns with detached colonnettes. Chanel arch to north. Curved coupled wooden roofs to nave and transepts (where doubled) and wooden vaulting to chancel. Furnishings mostly gifted by Coats family 1903-4: canopie

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.