St Pius X Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery, 4 Bayfield Terrace, Glasgow

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 02/04/1996 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 52310 71458 Coordinates 252310, 671458 — Alexander McAnally, 1954-7. Stripped modern Romanesque aisle-less church with apse. Red brick and contrasting cream sandstone dressings and eaves course. Chamfered arrises; round-arched windows; plain, pier buttresses. SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled elevation with slender campanile engaged to right; ashlar tripartite doorpiece with gable over centre door bearing carved panel and with stone cross breaking through at apex; 3 pairs of boarded doors with decorative hinges. Tall round-arched window above. CAMPANILE: rectangular-plan, at E corner of SE elevation with louvred round-arched windows at towerhead, single to SE and NW, tall bipartite to NE. Swept, tall, copper pavilion roof with metal cross finial. NE ELEVATION: campanile to outer left. 7-bay nave with dividing buttresses. Single storey, flat-roofed vestry porch projecting to right. NW (APSE) ELEVATION: tall, deeply bowed apse with ashlar mullioned window strips at wallhead to left and right and flat-roofed single storey service ambulatory projecting at ground. SW ELEVATION: single bay of narthex to outer right. 7-bay nave, bowed conically roofed baptistery adjoined to outer right bay, with 8-light window; flat-roofed, single storey porch across 3 bays to left of centre. Square-pane, metal glazing grids to windows with hopper openings and small-lead-pane glazing pattern. Grey slates to pitch swept low over nave and bowed at apse and baptistery. INTERIOR: fine period, modern church fittings in situ. Panelled wainscot in bays upto altar, with crossing delineated by pilasters. Plastered walls and roof, latter enclosed below apex and ribbed with supporting beams on block cor

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.