Dowanvale Free Church Of Scotland, 35 Dowanhill Street

Alexander Petrie, 1880. Rectangular-plan gable-fronted Gothic church with twin short spirelets and projecting stair bays to SW and NE. Squared and snecked stugged buff sandstone with ashlar dressings. Ground floor and first floor cill courses, continuous hoodmould, corbelled eaves cornice.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central Gothic-arched timber-panelled door in gabled projecting porch flanked by single lancets. Single lancets to projecting stair bays. 4 single lancets at 1st floor level. Projecting flat buttresses rising to octagonal spirelets.

NE (CHANCELLOR STREET) ELEVATION: projecting gabled stair tower to left; flanking buttresses. Hoodmoulded 4-centred arch door on ground floor, quatrefoil window over. Hoodmoulded single lancet to upper level. 5 regular bays of double lancets divided by set-back buttresses. Continuous hoodmould. Shouldered-arched openings to the lower level (most now blocked up). Stone steps to lower entrance. Galvanised access ramp.

SW ELEVATION: as NE elevation. All lower openings blocked up.

INTERIOR: on 2 levels, main body with large hall below.

Tiled entrance hall with plasterwork cornice. Stone stairs to either side with cast iron balusters, leading to lower hall and galleries. Coved ceiling to main body, divided into panels with plaster ribs. Timber galleries supported on cast iron columns to three sides. Open pews to galleries and lower level. Central table and raised pulpit with large elder's box; decorated with blind trefoil panels. Gothic sounding board. 2-leaf timber boarded doors. Metal-framed windows, clear with bands of yellow, blue and green coloured glass (some glass to SE renewed). Graded grey slates with clay ridge tiles. Cast iron rainwater goods. Decorative cast iron railings and gates.