Anderston Kelvingrove Parish Church (Church Of Scotland), 759 Argyle Street, Little Street, Grace Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 February 2014. Church. 5 related planning applications.

Anderston Kelvingrove Parish Church (Church Of Scotland), 759 Argyle Street, Little Street, Grace Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
burning-wattle-wind
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 February 2014
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Honeyman, Jack and Robertson, 1965-8; internal alteration by Honeyman, Jack and Robertson, 1976. 2-storey, square-plan church with prominent pyramidal roof and adjoining ancillary accommodation comprised of lower 2-storey office accommodation to north elevation, double-height, rectangular-plan church hall to northwest and roughly L-plan linking block between church and hall with distinctive shuttered and precast concrete slatted bell tower to east elevation; in centre of city housing estate. Reinforced concrete frame construction with facing brown brick infills. Cement render to office section. Glazing in bespoke timber frames forming strip of windows set below the concrete frame. Full height glazing to centre bays of east elevation of church.

Some timber framed tilt and turn windows to ancillary accommodation. Pyramidal roof of replacement anodised aluminium panels on timber structure. Flat roofed with asbestos felt to ancillary accommodation. Bespoke, pyramidal rooflights to church hall.

The interior, seen in 2013, is characterised by bespoke hardwood fixtures and fittings and brown brick walls. The church is located at the first floor and has a stepped rectangular dais composed of brown brick laid on in situ cast concrete with integral hardwood pulpit on brick base, hardwood communion table, pyramid roof with exposed hardwood timber frame. Hardwood and glazed partitions to church and meeting rooms. Screen walls at ground floor constructed of concrete blocks with open cross crosslet pattern.

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