University Of Strathclyde Chaplaincy Centre, 97-101 John Street, Glasgow

The University of Strathclyde Chaplaincy Centre, located at 97-101 John Street, Glasgow, was originally a church designed by John McIntyre and built in 1907. The building was altered and extended in 1958 by Wylie, Shanks & Underwood. It is an Edwardian Baroque building with a raised basement and attic, comprising a five-bay nave and an angle tower on a corner site, where the ground falls to the south. The exterior features banded pilaster and quoin strips flanking the first floor of the former nave, and a moulded string course at the basement on the Martha Street elevation. Mostly, window surrounds are deeply moulded and architraved.

The east elevation, facing John Street, has a five-bay gable to the left of centre with architraved windows at ground floor, all under a moulded string course, with a semicircular pediment over the central window. Tall, keystoned, and corniced Venetian windows are above. The gable is flanked by broad, corniced pilasters, each with a tall, narrow corniced recess at ground floor. A small, corbelled panel rises to a semicircular pediment at the gablehead. A slightly set-back, lower entrance bay is to the right of centre, featuring steps leading to a deep-set, panelled timber and glazed door within a broad, moulded and keystoned architrave. Above this is a corbelled pane and a round-arched window breaking the eaves, topped with a corbelled pediment. A moulded cornice and blocking course complete the façade. Further bays to the right feature Gibbsian rybats to the openings. The wall of the forestair leading to the tower entrance is punctuated by a round-headed basement window.

The southeast angle tower is three-stage and square-plan. A round-arched opening on the Martha Street elevation provides access via a timber door and a semi-circular fanlight, with a glazed arrowslit above and a corbelled string course to the top of the first stage. A forestair leads to a round-arched, pedimented entrance with a two-leaf panelled timber door and a semi-circular fanlight; a narrow, pedimented opening is above. A tabbed panel clock face is positioned below a deep cornice forming pediments, breaking into the top stage. A set-back belfry has paired, round-arched, keystoned, and louvered bipartite openings with hoodmoulds below a corniced and finialled dome.

The south elevation, facing Martha Street, is six bays wide and incorporates a later raised wallhead. The five bays of the nave feature tripartite windows with stone mullions at ground floor, a rounded angle to the outer right, and Venetian, corniced windows at first floor. The outer bays have Gibbsian rybats. Bays are divided by plain pilasters, all flanked by broader pilaster/quoin strips with a moulded panel near the cornice. A later attic level has full-width windows, with a taller window over the central bays. A further later bay is built to the outer right in dark stone, with contrasting dressings except for the third stage, which has a bipartite window to each stage.

The interior, seen in 2011, has been subdivided into an interdenominational university chaplaincy centre, including a small, barrel-vaulted chapel within the original clerestory. The building is characterised by predominantly small-pane glazing patterns within timber sash and case windows. A pitched roof has a later linear rooflight. A pyramidal roof with a finial sits over the entrance bay. Later rainwater goods are present.