Kelvinside Free Church, 731 Great Western Road, Glasgow

Kelvinside Free Church, located at 731 Great Western Road in Glasgow, is a Grade B listed building designed by J J Stevenson (of Campbell Douglas and Stevenson) between 1862 and 1863. The church was altered in 1886 with the installation of an organ recess and underwent further additions in 1902 and 1929 by Jeffrey Waddell. This Italianate Gothic church is constructed of snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and features an aisled nave, a clerestorey, and a northwest tower topped with a spire. The west end has a three-sided apse with a gabled porch situated between buttresses. The entrance features a pointed arch supported by columns with foliate capitals, and there is blind arcading along with paired windows above. A circular turret is located to the right of the apse.

The tower consists of five stages, beginning with a gabled columned porch at the ground level that includes a set-back flat-headed door. The second stage has blind arcading, while the third stage features paired windows with hoodmoulds. The belfry stage has three louvred openings with plate tracery, culminating in a tall pyramidal spire. The nave comprises five bays with buttressed aisles, featuring paired windows at the ground floor and wheel windows above in the gallery. The clerestorey windows are paired and set in panels, and there is an eaves cornice. The slate roof has a ridge-piece, a skew to the east gable, and a cross at the apex. To the northeast corner, there are single-storey and attic offices, which include a round-headed recessed porch flanked by two windows and a canted corbelled oriel above, also with a slate roof.

Inside, the church is floored at gallery level and features a galleried design with an upper arcade and a stringcourse above that is stopped by heads. A relief memorial panel by A McF Shannan is present. The east wall of the porch is arcaded and includes a sculpture war memorial commemorating the 1914-18 conflict. The porch has a ribbed ceiling with a sculpted boss and features two sculpted busts of John Campbell, Lord Overtoun, and Margaret Somerville, created by Derwent Wood in 1898.