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

The Church of St Jude's Congregation and Hall, located at 133 Woodlands Road in Glasgow, was designed by architect John Burnet Snr and built between 1874 and 1875. This French Gothic church features a four-bay aisle, a nave, and a tower situated in the northwest corner. The exterior is constructed of stugged coursed ashlar stone that has been cleaned, and it includes plate tracery windows along with many ornate details such as gargoyle spouts and grotesque corbels that support pinnacles.

The west front of the church has a pointed-arch entrance beneath a gable with a finial, flanked by stepped buttresses. It features nook shafts and moulded reveals, with paired doors that have roll-moulded heads and a dividing trumeau. Above the entrance, there are paired pointed-arch two-light windows with simple geometric tracery, as well as a single round window in the gable. The tower is designed in three stages and includes an engaged stair turret on the west side. There is a door on the north side under a pointed arch with moulded reveals, and the upper stage of the tower has paired lancet openings. The tower culminates in a facetted spire, which has columned pinnacle-niches with figures of saints at the angles and lucarnes in between.

Inside, the church features a galleried interior supported by slender cast-iron columns with decorative capitals, which create a pointed arch arcade that separates the four-bay aisles from the wide nave. The gallery extends around three sides and has a cusped panel front, supported to the west by wooden corbels and to the north and south by the aisle arcades. The carved oak reredos incorporates the organ and pulpit. The roof consists of a tie beam structure with a flat decorative timber ceiling supported on wooden corbels, and there is vaulting over the side galleries. The vestry and hall are located to the east of the church.