St Paul's Church, Dumbarton Road, Whiteinch

St Paul’s Church, built in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Reginald Fairlie & Partners, is a basilican-type church with a plain, rectilinear design. The church combines red sandstone ashlar and red brick construction, featuring a 5-bay flat-roofed narthex and a 6-bay pitched-roofed nave with low side aisles. The church incorporates dalle de verre stained glass by Gabriel Loire of Chartres.

The north-east (principal) elevation is symmetrical, dominated by a tall, three-stage tower centrally placed. This tower has steps leading to a panelled timber door, above which stands a statue of St Paul. A tall, tripartite window sits above the door, and a small, timber-louvered tripartite window is found on the third stage, topped with a pedimented gablehead and a corbelled cross. Flanking bays feature segmentally arched doorways and small tripartite windows, with further set-back brick bays on either side.

The south-west elevation presents a broad, gabled front with a full-height, bowed sanctuary window, showcasing the stained glass, alongside low flanking aisles. The north-west elevation showcases a projecting gabled side chapel, a tall tripartite window, a horizontally-aligned clerestory window, and a link to a presbytery. A single-story flat-roofed extension sits in the re-entrant angle. The south-east elevation displays similar elements to the north-west, with a further flat-roofed bay, the Chapel of St John Ogilvie, to the right.

The church's interior is dark and rectilinear, with dramatic colour provided by the stained glass. The nave features a shallow-vaulted ceiling, squat brick piers, galleries to the north-east and south-east side chapels, timber pews, and low side aisles. Carved “Stations of the Cross” are positioned below the clerestory windows. A panelled organ housing is located on polygonal columns within the north-west side chapel.

The stained glass, created by Gabriel Loire, includes a 9-light sanctuary window depicting the life of St Paul, a 3-light window depicting the Virgin and Child, and abstract designs throughout the nave and clerestory. A baptistry to the north-west features a cupola depicting the Dove of Peace, also in the dalle de verre style. The church has a modern sheet metal roof, deep ashlar-coped skews, cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

The church is enclosed by low saddleback-coped brick boundary walls with inset railings and dry-dash boundary walls, along with square-section brick gatepiers and decorative ironwork gates.