Kelvinside Free Church, 731 Great Western Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Church. 8 related planning applications.

Kelvinside Free Church, 731 Great Western Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
tired-gallery-barley
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

J J Stevenson (Campbell Douglas and Stevenson), 1862-3. Altered 1886 with installation of organ recess and 1902, additions 1929, Jeffrey Waddell. N Italianate Gothic church, snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Aisled nave, clerestorey, northwest tower with spire. Three-sided apse at west with gabled porch between buttresses. Pointed arch with foliate capitals and columns. Blind arcading and paired windows above. Circular turret to right of apse.

TOWER: Five stages, gabled columned porch at ground with set-back flat- headed door. Blind arcading to second stage paired windows with hoodmoulds to third, three-light louvred belfry stage with plate tracery, tall pyramidal spire. Nave of five bays with buttressed aisles. Paired windows at ground floor with wheel windows to gallery over. Paired clerestorey windows set in panels. Eaves cornice. Slate roof with ridge-piece. Skew to east gable and cross to apex. Single storey and attic offices to northeast corner. Round-headed, recessed porch flanked by two windows, canted corbelled oriel to gable above. Slate roof.

INTERIOR: floored at gallery level. Galleried with upper arcade, stringcourse above stopped by heads. Relief memorial panel by A McF Shannan.

PORCH: arcaded east wall with sculpture war memorial (1914-18). Ribbed ceiling with sculpted boss. Two sculpted busts of John Campbell, Lord Overtoun and Margaret Somerville by Derwent Wood, 1898.

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