Cowcaddens Free Church And Hall, 30, 32, 34 Mcphater Street, Glasgow

Campbell Douglas and Sellars, 1872. Refurbished and converted to a centre for the study and teaching of the art of piping, 1993-96, by McGurn, Logan, Duncan and Opfer. Italianate church, with temple frontage. Cream ashlar sandstone to front and W side, and E side above clerestorey. Base course; cill courses and cornices, with parapets at aisles.

S ELEVATION: 2 storey, advanced and pedimented, ground floor forms plinth with channelled pilaster quoins and tall centre pedimented doorpiece with deep-set 2-leaf panelled doors. 3 bays above shallow portico, of 2 inner columns flanked by paired pilasters; tall corniced and pilastered windows behind. Outer bays, slightly recessed, (left bay base of campanile each with pedimented and pilastered doorway and panelled doors; Greek Key frieze to lintels; E door bay adjoined to Hall.

TOWER: 3-stage squat campanile at SW corner, architraved window at ground to W side, doorway to S (see above); paired openings below round-arched louvred openings with impost course; deep consoled eaves to Roman tiled piend roof.

W ELEVATION: tower to outer right; 5 bays to aisle and set-back clerestorey; 3 segmentally pedimented and pilastered ground floor windows, 2 regularly pedimented; pier mullioned tripartite clerestorey windows; low opening to crypt at N end, on falling ground.

E ELEVATION: adjoined at S end by Hall detailed as W.

HALL: square plan, 3-storey and basement, 3-bay building, now hall but possibly with some residential accommodation originally. Cream sandstone ashlar front. Moulded cill courses at 1st and 2nd floor, and cornice

to S front. Small-paned windows to basement; single windows at centre bay in each floor, and stone mullioned bipartites flanking, all architraved. Stair bay projecting at rear to NW, added later, with brick to N and W sides; doorway at ground to E. Wallhead stacks, one truncated. Slate piend roof with remains of louvred ventilator at apex.