Congregational Church, 339 Eglinton Street, Glasgow

The Congregational Church located at 339 Eglinton Street in Glasgow was designed by John Burnet, Senior, and dates back to 1866. This Gothic-style church features a rectangular plan with a tower and spire. The exterior is constructed from coursed stugged rubble with ashlar dressings.

The gable end facing the street has a pair of pointed arched doorways, which are framed by a central column adorned with a stiff leafed capital. The wooden doors are diagonally boarded and fitted with foliated iron hinges, and the reveals are moulded with hoodmoulds above. Stone angel heads are positioned above the doors. The church also includes diminutive buttresses and small cusped windows. Original Gothic detailed cast-iron railings are present, and there is a low crow-stepped projection on the left side. A string course serves as a cill for a triple-light geometrical traceried window, which has a vesica above it, and this window is stepped up as a hoodmould over a small tower window. The Star of David that once adorned the apex of the gable is now missing.

The square tower is topped with a broached spire, which features a louvred lantern, gargoyles, and a tapered spire made of chevron banded masonry. At the base of the tower, there is a pointed and stilted doorway with a dripmould, which currently has a modern door installed.

On the south elevation, trefoil cusped lancets are separated by buttresses, and Gothic cast-iron railings are present. The basement hall windows have been blocked. The gable features a stack, two cusped lights, and a vesica. Above a small modern brick addition, the east rose window has also been blocked.