St Matthew's Blythswood, 246 Bath Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Church.
St Matthew's Blythswood, 246 Bath Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- north-pediment-starling
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Matthew's Blythswood, located at 246 Bath Street in Glasgow, is a church designed by John T Emmet between 1849 and 1852 in the Early English Gothic style. The building features a nave and chancel with aisles and a clerestory, along with a northwest tower and spire. The design is symmetrical, although much of the detailing was removed in 1968, particularly from the steeple. The exterior is constructed of polished ashlar, with a graduated plinth that has roll moulding. There are ribbed doorways located to the west under the tower, in the porch to the northwest, and in the north bay facing Holland Street. The west wall is partly hidden by a later addition.
The steeple consists of a four-stage tower with plate-traceried belfry and a slim spire, although the pinnacles and lucarnes have been removed. The church features an east window with tracery that includes intersecting mullions, impaled trefoils, and elaborate shafts with capitals and bases. The aisle and clerestory windows have Y-tracery, with cusping, and are flanked by smaller west aisle windows. The building is supported by buttresses and has coped gables along with a fretted ridgepiece.
Inside, the nave arcade is adorned with clustered colonettes and recessed clerestory windows. The roof features an arched brace design with wall posts supported by cast angelic corbels over the spandrels, decorated with foliage at the east end. The stained glass in the east wall depicts the Apostles flanking Christ in Glory above the figures of Truth, Hope, Charity, Faith, and Justice, and is signed by Norman McDougall from 1905.
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