Church Of St Jude's Congregation And Hall, 133 Woodlands Road, Glasgow

John Burnet Snr architect, 1874-5. French Gothic church

and halls; church with 4-bay aisles, nave and tower in

N W angle. Stugged coursed ashlar, stonecleaned; plate

tracery windows: many ornate features: gargoyle

spouts, grotesque corbels supporting pinnacles etc.

Clerestory windows set in gables at right angles to main

roof, above paired cusped lancets. West front:

pointed-arch entrance under gable with finial, flanked

by stepped buttresses; nook shafts and moulded reveals.

Paired doors with roll-moulded heads and dividing

trumeau. Above, paired pointed-arch 2-light windows

with simple geometric tracery; single round window in

gable. Tower in 3-stages with engaged stair turret to W.

Door in N side under pointed arch with moulded reveals.

Upper stage with paired lancet openings. Facetted spire

rises from tower; at base columned pinnacle-niches with

figures of saints at angles; lucarnes between.

Galleried interior: slender cast-iron columns with

decorative capitals support pointed arch arcade

separating 4-bay aisles from wide nave. Gallery to 3

sides with cusped panel front. Supported to W by

wooden corbels and to N and S by aisle arcades. Carved

oak reredos with organ and pulpit incorporated. Tie beam

roof with flat decorative timber ceiling supported on

wooden corbels; vaulting over side galleries. Vestry and

hall to East.