St Charles' Kelvinside Roman Catholic Church, 9 Kelvinside Gardens, Glasgow

St Charles' Kelvinside Roman Catholic Church, built between 1959 and 1960 by Gillespie Kidd and Coia, is a long church situated on a steep hillside in Glasgow. The church has a rectangular plan with seven bays and a narrow seven-bay apse that is continuous with the main body. It features a tall, nearly detached cloche for the sacristy, which is inspired by Scandinavian design and is circular in shape. The structure is made of reinforced concrete with brick infill panels. Natural light primarily comes from clerestorey windows, along with a largely glazed eastern gable and the final bay before the apse. The east entrance has a wide doorway and a gable topped with a cross finial, while to the south, there is a bowed brick baptistry beneath a rectangular canopy. The apse includes a shallow three-bay western projection.

The cloche has a skeletal frame with platforms and bells hung beneath a concrete roof, topped with a weathervane. The baptistry is circular and also features clerestorey lighting.

Inside, the church has tall concrete wall columns that swell at the top to support a ridged vault, encircling the nave and apse. Between the columns are brick panels located below a narrow clerestorey. Chapels extend from the side aisles, and above the aisles is a broad concrete beam that serves as a base for an inventive frieze of the Stations of the Cross designed by Benno Schotz. The sanctuary lamp is also by Schotz, and the seating was designed by Coia. The altar is made of Mexican onyx.