St Simon's Rc Church, Partick Bridge Street, Glasgow

Charles O'Neill, 1858, minor internal alterations to church, Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, 1956-7, minor external additions. 3-bay 2-storey presbytery and 3-bay simple Gothic church. Coursed sandstone with chamfered window and door openings (wing to E of presbytery harled). Part base course to presbytery (to accommodate slope of site), base course to church.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION:

Presbytery: off-centre entrance door with rounded trefoil empty niche above, bipartite window to ground right. To right timber boarded door set in sandstone pointed arch doorway with Latin cross above linking presbytery to church.

Church: symmetrical gable elevation with Celtic cross at apex. Central entrance with 2-leaf timber boarded door flanked by simple receding moulding, outer hoodmould with label stops. Above, stepped 4-light lancet window with cill course, outer lancets shorter. At outer bays, single light lancet windows flanked by buttresses, those to right shorter.

S ELEVATION: (church) 6-bay, alternating buttresses and lancet windows, truncated lancet to 2nd bay to accommodate entrance door. Bay 5 part-obscured by small later flat-roofed rectangular addition.

E ELEVATION:

Church: gable with Celtic cross at apex, near full-height central semicircular apse, to left, lower smaller semicircular side chapel, attached to apse to right low 1-bay pitched roof sacristy.

Presbytery: off-centre 1-bay two-storey piended harled wing, long fixed staircase window-light to right.

N ELEVATION:

Church: low gable of sacristy to left, lancets and buttressing to right part-obscured by later flat-roofed addition with entrance doorway. Presbytery: blank gable elevation, to left, 3-bay harled slightly recessed wing.

Predominantly replacement windows to presbytery, lancets in church with simple coloured glass (excepting stained glass window to E). Grey slates, triangular roof vents near ridge to church.

INTERIOR: presbytery, plain with cornices to ground floor bipartite room and bedroom above. Church, entrance hall with modern timber and glass screen with doorways at either side gives entrance to nave. Gallery to W, timber ceiling with timber pointed hammerbeam roof. Apse with pointed arch supported by slender columns with foliate capitals, surrounded by hoodmould. Foliate cornice to apse. Marble dado and floor to apse, pulpit, altar (altar panel of 'Christ comforted by His Mother' by Mortimer) and font by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia. Plain timber pews. Lady chapel with pointed arch contains copy of the 'Black Madonna' in ornate gilt frame with trefoil arch and pinnacles at top. Mosaic of church below. Fine stained/painted glass window in apse depicts the Immaculate Conception flanked by Saints Peter and John. 2 small modern stained glass windows in Lady Chapel.