Pollokshields Free Church West, 614-620 Shields Road, Glasgow

W G Rowan (of McKissack and Rowan), 1875-9 as a Free

church, latterly Pollokshields West Church. Thomsonesque

Greek, and on corner site; lofty square tower at

corner (like Thomson's towers) has walls mainly blank

below decorative top stage, open-worked domed lantern

raised above; 3 elevations of body of church have Ionic

portico raised above podium (again, an arrangement

favoured by Thomson). Polished ashlar, slate roofs,

pediments with anthemion finials; shallow Doric portico

to Shields Road with triple doorway; square-ended

chancel not original (?1923). Interior remodelled 1923;

stained glass panels by Alfred Webster and Nina Millar

Davidson. Stone-built boundary wall has piers with

Egypto-Greek ornament.