St Andrew's By The Green, 33 Turnbull Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 July 1966. Church.

St Andrew's By The Green, 33 Turnbull Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
stark-foundation-torch
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 July 1966
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Andrew's By The Green, located at 33 Turnbull Street in Glasgow, is a significant church built between 1750 and 1751 by joint master masons Andrew Hunter and William Paull, with Thomas Thomson as the wright. It is notable for being the first church in Glasgow constructed specifically as an Episcopal church. The building is made of polished ashlar stone and has been cleaned. In 1988, restoration work was carried out, and the church was altered for secular use.

The church is a rectangular, two-storey structure with five-bay elevations on the north and south sides and three-bay elevations on the east and west sides.

On the north and south elevations, each bay is flanked by banded strip pilasters, with the center three bays being slightly advanced and topped with a pediment. The windows are single light, with the ground floor windows being squarer and the first-floor windows being rectangular. All windows are architraved with keystones and bracketed cills. The eaves feature a cornice, and there is a plain parapet with urn finials. The pediment has a central oculus and an apex topped with an urn finial. The roof is covered with slate.

The east and west elevations have centrally placed doorways, with the west side featuring a projecting, polygonal, pilastered porch that is a single storey and an earlier 19th-century addition. Above this porch is a round-arched Gibbsian window that once contained stained glass, likely created by Stephen Adam. The other windows on these elevations were originally all sash and case with small pane glazing, but they were blocked in 1988 and await restoration. The west gable includes an openwork timber belfry. The pediments on these elevations also have a central oculus flanked by ornamental iron tie-plates.

The interior was gutted in 1987 to convert the space into flats. Originally, it contained a fine collection of Episcopal Church furnishings and fittings from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, all of good quality. It is currently unknown to what extent any original features may be restored.

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