Lansdowne United Presbyterian Church, 416 And 420 Great Western Road, Glasgow

Lansdowne United Presbyterian Church, located at 416 and 420 Great Western Road in Glasgow, was designed by architect John Honeyman in 1863, with sculptural work by John Mossman. This early English T-plan church features an apsidal design, a tower, and a spire at the southeast. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble with polished ashlar margins and has slate roofs.

The west front showcases angle buttresses that rise to columned pinnacles, and an elaborate pointed arch porch adorned with dog-tooth moulding. The porch has deeply recessed paired doors beneath a moulded pointed arch, supported by nook shafts of polished granite with stiff leaf ashlar capitals. Flanking the porch are deep buttresses with blind arcading that extends to gabletted angle buttresses, which feature a roundel above the arcading. Above this, there is a stepped triple lancet window. The church has low pseudo-aisles that are also buttressed and topped with columned pinnacles. The transepts include three lancet windows above a blind arcade.

The tower is divided into three stages: the first stage is buttressed and has a tripartite window above the door; the second stage contains two-light louvered openings; and the third stage is more elaborate, featuring plate tracery windows with gables that rise into the spire. The tall, slender spire is decorated with niches and a band of diaper work at its midpoint. Surrounding the church is a low ashlar wall with decorative cast-iron railings, along with intermediate gabled ashlar piers and gatepiers.

Inside, the church has aisled corridors that open through doors into the main body of the church. A gallery encircles three sides, featuring a panelled front supported on wooden brackets, and in the transepts, on cast-iron clustered columns. The ceiling is a ribbed tunnel vault supported by stone corbels. The clustered shafts of red marble with carved capitals and corbels support the ribs of the vaulted apse ceiling. The altar is made of marble with coloured marble inlay and colonnette shafts. The oak panelled apse includes a War Memorial triptych by Evelyn Beale from 1923, and three apse windows designed by Ward and Hughes of London in 1865. The transept windows were created by Alfred Webster in 1913 and Gordon Webster between 1950 and 1960. There is a memorial brass plaque to Alfred Webster in the south transept, and a medallion portrait of Rev John Eadie by Mossman from 1879 is located in the vestibule. The church is also fitted with hanging brass lamps from around 1920.