Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church, 23 Saltoun Street, Glasgow

Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church, designed by architect James Sellars, was built between 1875 and 1876 in a French Gothic style, modeled after Sainte Chapelle. The church is constructed from stugged, coursed ashlar with polished dressings and has been stone cleaned.

The west front features a pointed arch portal with nook shafts and decorative moulding bands, leading to double doors with a trumeau. Above the portal is a large rose window set in pointed arched moulded recesses, supported by engaged columns, with large angels carved in the spandrels. Full-height buttresses flank the portal, rising to gabled niches and linked below the main gable by a blind arcade. At the corners, three-sided buttress-towers rise to hexagonal spires that flank the main gable. The church has five-bay flanks with tall gabled traceried windows of triple lancets and roses divided by buttresses, and a gabled porch on the south side. The seven-bay apse features similarly detailed windows, a plain parapet with gargoyles, slate roofs, tile cresting, and an elaborate fleche. There is also a single-storey hall extension from the 1950s to the east.

Inside, elongated engaged columns between the windows support a ribbed vaulted roof. There is a gallery to the west with a panelled front supported on cast-iron columns, and an organ at the rear by H Willis & Sons from 1876, restored in 1930. The interior includes an elaborately carved oak pulpit and was redesigned by P McGregor Chalmers around 1921 to create the current seating arrangement. The apse wall features blind arcading with war memorials, and there are carved timber choir stalls and a communion table made of Rochette marble. The marble font is topped with an elaborately carved oak canopy. The nave and apse windows were designed by various artists, including Burne-Jones in 1893, Cottier and Co from 1893 to 1903, Meikle & Sons in 1917, and Sadie McLellan in 1958.