Queen's Park Church And Hall, 40 Queen's Drive, Glasgow

Queen's Park Church and Hall, built in 1872-3 by Campbell Douglas and Sellars, is a large, rectangular Gothic building of significant architectural merit. The church possesses fine stonework detailing, side aisles, and a striking, tall, buttressed square tower of Franco-German inspiration situated at the southeast angle, topped by an octagonal stone spire.

The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked, tooled sandstone with ashlar dressings, accentuated by a base course, moulded band courses, a crocketed string course to the entrance elevation, an eaves course, and a Latin cross apex finial on the gable. Notable features include chamfered openings, some with engaged nookshafts, predominantly chamfered cills and hoodmoulding, and ground-floor openings with blind trefoil insets. Angled buttresses are surmounted by gablets with blind quatrefoil insets. Attached to the rear is a stylistically similar, single-story, rectangular former hall.

The south (entrance) elevation features an advanced, central gabled porch with nookshafts and an elaborately detailed hoodmoulding. It contains a pair of two-leaf timber doors set within pointed-arched niches, topped by a carved Greek cross roundel. Triangular hoodmouldings feature above the flanking windows, and a lower, single-bay stairtower stands to the left, with a ground-floor entrance door.

The six-stage tower on the right-hand side comprises rollmoulded doorways with flanking colonettes and a carved Celtic roundel, tall slit windows, plain and ornamented stages, a bellcote with lancet louvred windows and colonettes, a crocketed cornices, nebule moulded courses, and an octagonal stone spire with gableted lucarnes at its base. A clasping buttress is visible on the southwest corner.

The west elevation is six bays wide, with paired square-headed windows set within pointed arched, hoodmoulded recesses, large round windows above, and a clearstorey with a three-light pointed arch glazing pattern. A slightly advanced stair tower on the right features plate tracery leaded windows and a blind, tripartite pointed arch window. The north elevation displays a projecting apse, partially obscured. The east elevation mirrors the west, excluding the stairtower.

The majority of windows are replacements (2004) with multiple panes of timber, some incorporating stained glass on the entrance elevation. The pitched roof to the nave is covered in grey slates, and multiple rooflights (2004) are present on both the main building and the apse.

Internally, the building was converted into 18 flats in 2002-2004. Some cast iron columns and original painted timber arched roof braces have been retained.

Boundary walls, stepped to the south with a triangular cope and decorative railings, enclose the property, alongside a pair of square-plan Gothic gatepiers with angled moulded, gabled caps containing carved insets, and two-leaf iron gates.