Erskine Parish Church (Church Of Scotland) Including Church Hall And Boundary Wall, Hodge Street And Cockburn Street

Erskine Parish Church, built in 1903-5 by A&W Black, is a roughly rectangular, gabled church constructed in the Perpendicular Gothic style. It is situated on Hodge Street and Cockburn Street, and includes a church hall and boundary wall. The church has a three-stage tower with a pinnacled design attached to the main gable, featuring a twin-arched entrance at ground level and a large tracery window above. The exterior is constructed from snecked, bull-faced Eastfield sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, incorporating a base course, a discontinuous string course, an eaves course, a parapet, shouldered angle buttresses, pointed-arch windows with roll-moulded and chamfered margins, hoodmolds, stone mullions, and stone tracery. The halls have stone-mullioned, transomed, multi-light, square-headed windows with chamfered margins.

The principal elevation features stone steps with coped side walls and decorative wrought-iron railings leading to a double-arched entrance with wrought-iron gates and ornamental spandrels. A large tracery window sits above the entrance, with a buttress featuring a crocketed pinnacle to the left and a cross finial at the gable apex. The tower advances to the right and includes louvered belfry openings, a crenellated and pierced parapet, and crocketed pinnacles. A two-stage stair tower is slightly recessed to the left of the gable, possessing a buttressed, canted end and narrow pointed-arch windows following the line of the stair.

Side elevations include lean-to side aisles, bipartite clerestory windows, and gabled transepts with large tracery windows. A gabled porch with a timber-panelled door is located on the north side, while a similar door with a hoodmould is found on the south side. The church has fixed-pane leaded lights and plate glass in timber sash and case windows within the hall.

The interior features a nave with a shallow-arched compartmental ceiling, a canted chancel, transepts with galleries, arcaded side aisles, and a gallery at the west end. A significant amount of high-quality carved woodwork is present, including a large organ case, chancel panelling, pulpit, communion table, lectern, choir stalls, panelled gallery fronts, and pew-ends. A marble font is also present, along with a mosaic floor in the chancel. Numerous memorial panels are set into the walls, and fine stained glass is within many windows. A narthex features finely carved, half-glazed timber doors and a frame with drop-tracery fanlights. A curved cantilevered stone stair, featuring fleur-de-lys balusters and a polished timber handrail, leads to the west gallery. The main hall has a simple trussed ceiling and dado-height timber-boarded panelling, while a spine corridor displays dado-height boarded panelling. Several meeting rooms adjoin the hall, featuring timber chimneypieces and plain moulded cornices. A smaller hall is located upstairs.

The boundary wall is constructed of ashlar-coped sandstone with raised piers at regular intervals.