Laurel Bank School, 121 Great George Street, Glasgow

James Miller, 1893-94. Gothic church with basement,

cruciform with apsed chancel. Snecked and stugged

ashlar with polished dressings. Gabled front with angle

buttresses and octagonal turrets. Pointed arched door

set in moulded reveals with nook shafts, gable over and

flanking buttresses. 2 small windows to either side with

cill course and linked hoodmoulds. Stringcourse over

forming cill band for 3 2-light windows each with

quatrefoil, continuous hoodmould. Vesica and cross to

gable.

Porch to right with flanking buttresses and arched side

door; single lancet to ground floor and 4-light window

with cusped tracery over; lean-to roof.

4-light mullioned and transomed windows to basement with

segmental relieving arch and cill course to ground floor

3-light arched windows inset in arches. Transepts with

angle and centre buttresses flanked by 2-light arched

windows. 5-sided apse with 3 lancets and facetted roof

flanked by 2 gabled side chapels; asymmetrical offices

with octagonal stair turret. Green slate roofs with

straight skews.

Interior: aisleless nave, small gallery over vestibule.

Hammerbeam room. Single column and arches to

transepts. Chancel with centre arch and 2 side arches.

Stained glass in apse. Christ flanked by Sts James and

John. Cast-iron columned basements.