House Of Worship And Gatepiers, 229 Woodlands Road, Glasgow

This is a two-storey church building with associated offices, constructed between 1907 and 1909 by H and D Barclay, situated on a sloping site at 229 Woodlands Road, Glasgow. The church is cruciform in plan and built of bull-faced yellow sandstone, featuring clasping buttresses, a corbelled eaves course, gablet raised skews, and cross finials to the gables. Yellow ashlar defines the margins and mullions of the windows.

The principal north elevation displays a corner tower to the outer left bay, with advanced, paired gabled bays at the centre. A three-light, mullioned and transomed window rises from the ground floor to a pointed-arch, traceried window above. An advanced gabled entrance porch is positioned centrally to the right, featuring a roll-moulded reveal to a pointed arch leading to modern timber doors, topped with a three-light mullioned fanlight. A three-light pointed arch window illuminates the first floor. An advanced bay with a lean-to roof is to the outer right, with a small trefoil window on the ground floor and a broad, three-light rectangular window above.

The south elevation includes an advanced, two-bay gabled block to the centre right, topped with a stack and a three-light, pointed-arch traceried window to the return. A forestair provides access to a rear door. A blocked three-light window sits on the ground floor to the left, with a three-light pointed arch above, and two smaller, blocked windows are located in the far left bay.

The east elevation reveals three large windows to the exposed basement gable end, along with a large three-light, pointed-arch traceried window to the first floor. A square-plan corner tower abuts to the right, containing a ground-floor door and a narrow rectangular window on the first floor, capped by a plain ashlar parapet and a crowstepped caphouse. The west elevation is partially obscured by an adjoining building.

The interior features a timber, balustraded staircase within a plain central lobby. Offices are located to the left and right, and a church library is situated to the rear centre. The library is timber-panelled with fitted, gothic-style bookcases on all sides. Carved panels above the stone fireplace on the east wall depict the oak and salmon of Glasgow, and the Swedish flag. Lintels on the panelled doors are inscribed with biblical scripts. Stairs emerge in the northwest corner of the first floor nave, leading to a gothic carved, glazed canopy. Engaged stone columns support double roll-moulded pointed arches to the transepts and a semicircular-arched chancel, with timber panel arcading to the rear of the chancel.

The windows are fitted with square-pane leaded glass. The roof is tiled with non-original concrete tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods are in place.

A low, coped, bull-faced boundary wall is present, along with plain capped gate piers.