Hillhead Congregational Church, 1 University Avenue, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1986. Church.
Hillhead Congregational Church, 1 University Avenue, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- north-terrace-spindle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1986
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Hugh Barclay of H & D Barclay, 1889-95. French Gothic aisled church with main facades to Gibson Street and University Avenue. Stugged and snecked ashlar, polished ashlar margins, bull-faced basement.
N (GIBSON STREET) ELEVATION: 3 tiers: buttressed basement and aisle; clerestory above. 5-bay aisle; centre bay with buttresses flanking gablet window; clerestory windows with Y tracery. Advanced gabled entrance bay to left of elevation with shouldered doorpiece flanked by narrow lancets. Shallow canted apse to E, with piended roof.
W (UNIVERSITY AVENUE) ELEVATION: buttresses rising to pinnacles flank gablet windows either side of gabled pointed arch portal with engaged column reveals and moulded soffit. Paired doors. Tall tracery windows above with engaged column reveals.
INTERIOR (seen 1986): much altered; modern internal partitioning. 5 polished granite columns divided nave from aisles. 2 stained glass windows to N, remain; otherwise few original fittings.
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