And Church Officer's Cottage, Hall, St John's Renfield Church, 16-22 Beaconsfield Road, Glasgow

The Church Officer's Cottage at St John's Renfield Church, located at 16-22 Beaconsfield Road in Glasgow, was designed by James Taylor Thomson and built between 1929 and 1931. This modern Gothic church features a symmetrical cruciform layout and is constructed from snecked rubble with polished margins.

The church has five-bay aisles and includes single-storey entrance porches on the north and south sides, which have steps leading up to simple pointed arch moulded doorways with double-leaf oak doors. The clerestory is adorned with five tall paired traceried windows that have opaque leaded panes, and there are buttresses positioned between the windows. The transept windows are cusp traceried and feature hood moulds with square label stops. The west and east ends of the church each have three-light traceried windows flanked by buttresses. The chancel has a deep parapet with modernist detailing at the angles and a blank niche on the south wall. A tall central fleche sits atop the building, accompanied by a plain parapet and a slate roof.

Inside, the church features polished sandstone and a roll-moulded vestibule door that provides access to the nave, which is separated from the narrow aisles by a depressed arch arcade. The aisles contain single leaded lights created by Gordon Webster between 1967 and 1970, while the east window consists of three lights designed by Douglas Strachan. The interior boasts a ribbed ceiling with a groined crossing, an organ loft in the south transept, and well-crafted hanging brass lamps along with fixed wall-light fittings. Additionally, there is a carved oak communion table, reredos, and choir stalls. To the northeast of the church, there are extensive halls, and to the north, the church officer's cottage features a roughcast exterior.