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

A&W Black, 1903-5. Roughly rectangular-plan, gabled, Perpendicular Gothic church with pinnacled 3-stage tower adjoining principal gable with twin-arched entrance at ground and large tracery window above; well-detailed interior; church halls and meeting rooms adjoining to rear. Snecked, bull-faced, Eastfield sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; discontinuous string course; eaves course and parapet to side elevations with moulded cope and slim pinnacles. Shouldered angle buttresses; pointed-arch windows with roll-moulded and chamfered margins; hoodmoulds; larger windows with stone mullions and tracery; stone-mullioned and transomed multi-light square-headed windows with chamfered margins to halls.

PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: stone steps with coped side walls and decorative wrought-iron railings to double-arched entrance with wrought-iron gates, ornamental spandrels, frieze and flanking engaged octagonal pinnacles; large tracery window above; buttress with crocketed pinnacle to left; cross finial to gable apex. Tower advanced to right with louvered belfry openings, crenellated and pierced parapet and crocketed pinnacles. 2-stage stair tower slightly recessed to left of gable with buttressed, canted end and narrow pointed-arch windows following line of stair.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: side elevations with lean-to side aisles, bipartite clerestory windows and gabled transepts with large tracery windows. Church hall with timber panelled door in gabled porch to N side; timber panelled door with hoodmould to S side.

Fixed-pane leaded lights to church; plate glass in timber sash and case windows to hall. Ashlar-coped skews. Ashlar-coped stacks to hall. Octagonal ventilator fleche over transept. Grey slates with crested red terracotta ridge tiles.

INTERIOR: nave with shallow-arched, compartmental ceiling, canted chancel, transepts with galleries, arcaded side-aisles and gallery at W end. High quality carved woodwork including large organ case, chancel panelling, pulpit, communion table, lectern, choir stalls, panelled gallery fronts, and pew-ends. Marble font. Mosaic floor to chancel. Fine stained glass to many windows. A number of memorial panels to walls. Narthex with finely carved half-glazed timber doors and frame with drop-tracery fanlights. Curved cantilevered stone stair to W gallery with fleur-de-lys balusters and polished timber handrail. HALL: main hall with simple trussed ceiling and dado-height timber-boarded panelling; spine corridor with dado-height boarded panelling; several meeting rooms off with timber chimneypieces and plain moulded cornices. Smaller hall upstairs.

BOUNDARY WALL: ashlar-coped sandstone boundary wall with raised piers at regular intervals.