Langside Hill Church, 16 Algie Street, Glasgow

Alexander Skirving 1894-6 as free church, but now (1989)

empty and neglected. Built on prominent site on Langside

Hill. Main temple front to Battle Place with "Thomsonesque"

treatment, projecting wide triple-entrance porch with

Ionic hexastyle portico set above with acroteria and

uncarved tympanum; side aisles more Roman than Greek,

recessed on flanks behind curved staircase bays, these

channelled at ground, windows above separated by pilasters;

aisles with outer pediments and round-arched gallery

windows. Built mostly of snecked and squared rubble,

dressings and main front all polished ashlar; slated or

concealed roof. Halls at rear. Enclosed by stone boundary

retaining walls, these stepped to slope and with good

quality cast-iron railings with anthemion detail; gatepiers

channelled ashlar, piers at main front with decorative

cast-iron lamp brackets.