Hall, Temple Anniesland Parish Church, 859-869 Crow Road, Glasgow

The church is a Gothic building in red bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings, designed by Badenoch & Bruce and built in 1904-5. It replaces an earlier church by Alexander Petrie from 1898-9, which now stands adjoining and parallel to the south-west and has been converted as a hall.

The Church

The church is detailed throughout with ashlar: gablet heads cap the buttresses, a cill string course runs beneath the clerestorey windows, and the pointed-arch windows have chamfered arrises, some with hoodmoulds.

The south-east elevation, facing the entrance, features a broad central gable flanked by two slightly advanced, clasping, canted towers containing the gallery stairs. A pair of pointed-arch doorways with nookshafts and roll-moulded arch surrounds and hoodmoulds are linked beneath a gabled panel carved with a trefoil in the gablehead. Gablet-capped pilasters frame the panel on either side. The doors are two-leaf boarded with timber Y-traceried fanlights. Narrow windows with ogee-lintels and cornices flank these doorways. Above, a stepped group of three windows rises, the central window displaying two-light plate tracery with a cill course that steps down to the sides. Arrowslits pierce the gablehead, which is crowned with a cross finial. Engaged buttresses stand to either side. The stair towers have small, corniced understair bipartite windows, a string course below three-light and single-light windows above, an ashlar blocking course, and French pavilion-style roofs with lead finials.

The north-east elevation spans six bays. To the outer left, the return elevation of the stair tower displays a gabled door panel with a pointed-arch doorway topped by an ashlar arch-head and a three-light window above. The centre and right sections contain five symmetrical bays: the two gabled bays flanking the centre have two-light windows at ground level with stepped three-lights above, set within pointed-arch panels and framed by buttresses. The centre bay and the flanking bays each have a two-light window below and a squatter stepped three-light window above.

The north-west elevation is largely blank, a gable end incorporating what appears to be a dial rose window.

The entire structure is roofed with grey slates and features square-lead-pane glazing with borders throughout.

The interior plan is U-shaped. A panelled gallery on cast-iron columns runs around the space and continues above to support a pointed-arch arcade at the upper level. The walls are plastered with boarded dadoes, the ceilings are boarded timber, and the nave vault is barrel-vaulted. A panelled Gothic communion table with blind tracery and three en suite chairs stands in the chancel, accompanied by a secondary communion table with a cusped arcade and gilded quatrefoil centrepiece. The font has an octagonal shaft and quatrefoil-panelled frieze in timber. The lectern, installed in 1951, features a fluted timber shaft. The pulpit is set at the head of a double stair before a German organ case and displays blind Gothic arcading. A First World War Memorial clock in a decorative case, dating to circa 1921, is wall-mounted.

The Hall

The hall is a plain Gothic structure running parallel to the south-west elevation of the church. The front is stugged squared warm yellow sandstone; the side and rear are rendered and lined. Chamfered arrises frame the principal openings.

The south-east elevation is a three-bay gabled front with a broad pointed-arch window at the centre and narrow lancets in the flanking bays, all topped by hoodmoulds. Buttresses divide the bays, those at centre pyramidal-capped, those flanking gablet-capped. Arrowslits pierce the gablehead, which is finished with a cross finial. A recessed entrance porch to the right features a half-piend roof and a four-centre arched doorway.

The south-west elevation spans six bays. A single-storey door bay occupies the outer left. The centre bays display segmental-arched windows with mock keystones. The outer right bay is blank; the outer left bay has a lower, broader segmental window.

Windows throughout are large-paned with wired glass; the roof is finished in grey slates.

The interior has a deep coved ceiling with depressed arch beams supported by pedimented corbels. A boarded dado runs round the walls.

Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Railings

Saddleback-coped sandstone walls enclose the site: red sandstone in front of the later church, warm yellow in front of the earlier hall. Plain wrought-iron railings are fitted throughout. Ashlar piers with semicircular coping mark the boundary, while those flanking the principal entrance gate are topped with gablet coping.