Temple Anniesland Parish Church, 859-869 Crow Road, Glasgow

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 02/04/1996 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 54725 68904 Coordinates 254725, 668904 — Badenoch & Bruce, 1904-5, Gothic church, replacing earlier church which now adjoins and runs parallel at SW, by Alexander Petrie, 1898-9, converted as hall. CHURCH: red, bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings; gablet heads to buttresses; cill string course to clerestorey windows; chamfered arrises to pointed-arch windows, some hoodmoulds. SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: broad gable at centre, flanked by slightly advanced, clasping, canted towers of gallery stairs. Paired pointed arch doorways with nookshafts and roll-moulded arch surrounds, hoodmoulds, linked under gabled panel with trefoil carving in gablehead and gablet capped pilasters flanking; 2-leaf boarded doors and timber Y-traceried fanlights. Narrow windows flanking with ogee-lintels and cornice. Stepped group of 3 windows above with centre window 2-light plate traceried and with cill course stepping down to sides; arrowslits to gablehead and cross finial. Engaged buttresses flanking. Stair towers with small, corniced understair bipartite windows, string course below 3-light and single light windows above, ashlar blocking course and French pavilion style roofs with lead finials. NE ELEVATION: 6-bay. Return elevation of stair tower to outer left with gabled door panel and pointed arch doorway (ashlar arch-head), and 3-light window above. 5 symmetrical bays to centre and right; gabled bays flanking centre with 2-light windows at ground and stepped 3-lights above to gallery in pointed arch panel, framed by buttresses; centre and flanking bays each with 2-light window at ground and squatter stepped 3-light above. NW ELEVATION: largely blank gable end with ?dial? rose window

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.