Hall, Dowanhill United Presbyterian Church, 93-95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow

Dowanhill United Presbyterian Church, located at 93-95 Hyndland Street in Glasgow, was designed by William Leiper of Melvin and Leiper and built between 1865 and 1866 after winning a competition. This church features a Normandy Gothic style with a steeple that rises to 195 feet (60 meters). The structure includes a nave, aisles, chancel, transeptal galleries, a four-stage tower, and a spire. It is constructed from coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and is buttressed, sitting on a plinth.

The entrance front has an arched, gabletted, moulded doorway with colonettes at the base of the tower, flanked by tripartite aisle windows that feature geometrical tracery. The eastern elevation displays ground floor plate tracery windows with hoodmoulds, separated by buttresses, and five gabletted gallery windows above, also with geometrical tracery. There is a raked cill band and a bipartite pointed window in the southern bay, which includes a central colonette and responds, along with a zig-zag hoodmould and a pointed arched entrance with a sculpted tympanum.

The tower features plate tracery on the second stage, a blind arcade with tall colonettes on the third stage, and a bellcote with linked bipartite plate traceried openings on the fourth stage. The spire is adorned with angle lucarnes and plate-traceried openings, culminating in a tall stone spire. At the rear to the north, there are low, two-storey halls and offices, connected by a section with lancets in arches at the ground floor. The northern office section includes a two-storey polygonal attached turret at the northwest corner, with hipped roofs and half dormers.

Inside, the church has a very wide span and is galleried on cast-iron columns, featuring a cusped, carved balcony front. A plate-traceried rose window is located at the west end. The pulpit is arcaded and canopied, with a parapet and a bowed center supported by continuous dwarf columns. There are columned stair screens to the left and right of the vestibule. The stained glass was created by Daniel Cottier, and there are traces of the original stencil decorative scheme.