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

James Taylor Thomson, 1929-31. Modern Gothic symmetrical

cruciform church; snecked rubble with polished margins.

5-bay aisles with single storey entrance porches to N

and S with steps to simple pointed arch moulded doorways,

double-leaf oak doors. 5 tall paired traceried clerestory

windows with opaque leaded panes. Buttresses between

windows. Transept windows cusp traceried with hood mould

and square label stop.

3-light traceried W and E windows with flanking buttresses.

Chancel with deep parapet and modernist detail at angles,

blank niche to S wall.

Tall central fleche, plain parapet, slate roof.

INTERIOR: polished sandstone with roll-moulded vestibule

door giving access to nave, separated from narrow aisles

by depressed arch arcade, single leaded lights by Gordon

Webster, 1967-70. 3-light E window by Douglas Strachan.

Ribbed ceiling with groined crossing. Organ loft in S

transept. Good hanging brass lamps and fixed wall-light

fittings. Carved oak communion table, reredos and choir

stalls. Extensive halls to NE and church officer's cottage

to N roughcast exterior.