St George's Tron Parish Church, 163 Buchanan Street, Glasgow

William Stark, 1807. Classical, polished ashlar,

rectangular plan church with eastern main entrance and

Baroque steeple.

3-bay eastern vestibule section facing Buchanan Street

with 4, giant, semi-engaged Doric columns; continuous

plinth. Central consoled, corniced entrance with similar

flanking windows; keyblocked lunette above entrance,

rectangular stairlights flanking; eaves cornice;

balustraded parapet in outer bays. Single bay N and S

returns with altered consoled, corniced entrances with

fanlights and recessed, arched keyblocked window above.

Droved ashlar, side elevations, slightly recessed with

basement and margin-glazed windows to ground and gallery

levels.

3-STAGE STEEPLE: 1st stage balustraded parapet, giant

square angle pilasters columns; arched belfrey openings

with louvres, plain entablature. 2nd stage balustraded

parapet, 4 octagonal angle piers surmounted by obelisks

flanking slender upper stage with arched louvred belfry

openings, plain entablature. 3rd stage scrolled angle

supports, clock, to each face, circular dwarf Doric

colonnade surmounted by obelisk.

REAR ELEVATION: 4 bays, blind outer bays; simple, gable

pediment with stack; 2 tall, narrow, round-headed

windows; low wing projecting from central bays.

INTERIOR: Galleried with slim cast-iron columns, flat

ceiling with shallow, transverse barrel vault under

gallery; circular marble pulpit.