St Silas' English Church, Eldon Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1986. Church.

St Silas' English Church, Eldon Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
eternal-steel-claret
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 May 1986
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Silas' English Church, located on Eldon Street in Glasgow, was designed by architect John Honeyman in 1864, with a hall added by Miles Gibson between 1894 and 1895. This early English church features stugged coursed ashlar with polished ashlar margins. The building includes a nave and five-bay aisles, all supported by buttresses, and is adorned with traceried lancets that have chamfered arrises and hoodmoulds.

The south facade, which faces Eldon Street and serves as the liturgical west entrance, has steps leading to a recessed pointed-arch door. This door is flanked by nook shafts that support a moulded archivolt decorated with bands of ball-flower mouldings, and the hoodmould steps up around the arch. A centrally placed wheel window adds to the facade's design, and there is a corbel course at the eaves, with slate roofs completing the exterior.

Inside, the wide aisle is separated from the nave by a five-bay arcade supported on columns with foliate capitals and shaft rings. A shallow gallery on the south side is accessed by a stone newel stair and is supported on wooden brackets. On the north side, or liturgical east, there is a shallow reredos featuring a blind cusped arcade. The church has an open timberwork roof and stained glass dating from around 1880. The pulpit is a quatrefoil design on squat foliate colonnettes, and there is a brass eagle lectern from 1887, centrally positioned at the crossing on a raised stone platform. The hall to the north has a timberwork roof supported on stone corbels.

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