Thornliebank Woodlands Parish Church, Woodlands Road, Thornliebank

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 04/06/1990 Local Authority East Renfrewshire Planning Authority East Renfrewshire Parish Eastwood NGR NS 54750 59062 Coordinates 254750, 659062 — 1891 cruciform plan church, with near-contemporary hall abutting E gable. Chancel extended 1893. Nave orientated E-W, with paired aisles to N and S. Lower apse, with vestry addition adjoining at right angles to N. Squared, snecked and stugged ashlar with cream ashlar dressings; base course, chamfered reveals. Pointed-arched windows with plate tracery. Steep gables. N ELEVATION: gabled porch to outer right; pointed arched doorway with hoodmould. M-gabled aisles projecting at centre, each with paired windows at ground, round window with trefoil to gableheads. Later ?piended vestry addition adjoining to right. S ELEVATION: paired aisles projecting at centre as above. W ELEVATION: Two 3-light windows, round window to gablehead. E ELEVATION: 2-bay chancel adjoining E gable of nave. Coped ashlar skews, finials to gables, stack to E. E window dedicated to Alexander Crum 1893, S memorial window to David Tod, 1912 (see notes). Single-storey hall adjoining at right angles; gable breaking eaves to E with tripartite, bellcote to centre roof-ridge with conical roof and finial. Coped ashlar skews with angle skewputts, coped stack. — The site for the church was gifted by Alexander Crum and his brother William in 1891, when a separate parish of Thornliebank was set up from Eastwood. David Tod of Eastwood Park was a trustee. This church became known as Thornliebank Woodlands Parish Church in 1929, and was united with the Thornliebank Spiersbridge Church of Scotland as Thornliebank Parish Church in 1977. (The Spiersbridge Church was later converted into a new hall for the church.)

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.