St Anthony's R.C. Church, 831 Govan Road, Glasgow

John Honeyman, 1877-8, opened 1879. Byzantine style

church, coursed rubble with red ashlar polychrome

bands.

Gabled N elevation: round-headed doorway with dogtooth

moulding, 2 small side window with hood-mould linked to

string course.

Romanesque arcade to gallery, columns with cushion

capitals. Cusped rose window flanked by blind arches

and 2 quatrefoils in gable end. Cross finial.

Re-entrant angle: low porch with round-headed window

and door linked by string course; low roof, shouldered

arched window above. Square tower in angle, with 2

narrow windows. Intersecting Romanesque blind arcade

under open arched belfry. Corbel table, steep copper

pyramid roof; finial. Low extension with paired

Romanesque window by tower.

E elevation: 4 tall round-headed windows under

Romanesque paired windows; corbel table, slate roof, low

section at rear.

Interior: wide nave with wooden roof on corbels.

Chancel has semi-circular domed apse, lined with coloured

marble panels to dado, stencil decoration above. Round

headed lancets with good stained glass. Simpler stained

glass side windows. 3 stout stiff-leafed capital columns

carry galleries at N and E with small altar. Low arcade

at W aisle.