Adelaide Place Baptist Church, 188 Pitt Street, Glasgow

Adelaide Place Baptist Church, located at 188 Pitt Street in Glasgow, was designed by T L Watson and completed in 1877. This Italianate church features a five by nine bay structure, constructed of polished ashlar with a channelled ground floor and a snecked rubble rear elevation. The main block has a prominent temple front that is set forward on Pitt Street, flanked by symmetrically arranged transverse blocks with pediments at both the east and west ends.

The main elevation facing Pitt Street includes three round-headed doorways that are recessed and topped with cornices, featuring panelled doors and pilastered reveals. These doorways are accessed by a flight of steps with die walls and piers. The outer bays are also panelled and recessed, adorned with a blind dwarf pilastrade that is echoed over the pedimented entrance facing Bath Street and Bath Lane. The temple front, which is blind and tetrastyle, is raised above the entrances and supported by coupled Corinthian columns that hold up the pediment. The black wall is punctuated by three round-headed windows arranged in a Venetian arcade, which is repeated across six bays of the main block on Bath Street. The lower recessed block features a glazed pilastrade that is doubled at the corners and has a pediment at the gallery level facing Bath Street and Bath Lane.

On the Bath Street elevation, the ground floor of the main block has six two-light sash and case windows with pilaster mullions and dentils. An extension is advanced with a similar recessed doorway and a two-light arched window above. The pedimented end bay features a two-light, pilastered mullioned window with dentils on the ground floor and a two-light arcaded window with outer pilasters and a plain frieze on the first floor. The church is topped with a slate roof.

The elevation to Bath Lane mirrors the Bath Street elevation for the final seven bays from the west, lacking additional dressings. Surrounding the church are cast-iron railings on stone copings, corniced piers, and an ashlar boundary wall, along with cast-iron lamp standards.

Inside, the church has a galleried interior with pews arranged in circular curves around a central point. There is a platform with a plain reading desk, but no pulpit, situated in front of a baptistery made of white marble. Staircases are located at each of the four corners leading up to the galleries.