Holy Trinity And St Barnabas Church, St James'street, Paisley, Excluding Church Halls To South

Holy Trinity and St Barnabas Church is a Tudor-Gothic Episcopal church located on St James's Street in Paisley, designed by James Drummond between 1828 and 1833, with a chancel added by David Thomson in 1884. The church has a rectangular plan and symmetrical design, featuring a crenelated west gable with pinnacled buttresses and tall lancet windows in the nave. It is prominently situated at the head of St James Place. The exterior is constructed of sandstone ashlar on the west and margins, with rubble on the side elevations and stugged, snecked sandstone on the chancel. Architectural details include a base course, eaves course, chamfered window margins, and some hoodmoulding around the windows and entrance doorway. The west gable features a tripartite pointed-arch window, while the east end has a gabled chancel and a lower gabled vestry outshot to the north. The church is predominantly fitted with diamond-pane leaded glazing and stained glass windows, and it has a grey slate roof.

The interior, as seen in 2014, includes a shallow pointed arch roof in the nave with plain rib vaulting supported by a timber cornice. There is a timber balcony at the west end, which is supported by slim iron columns and features a decorative gothic balustrade. The west window contains stained glass by Colin Stevenson, created in 2004. The chancel arch is made of red sandstone and is supported by engaged Corinthian columns, with lower pointed-arch openings on either side. A low, carved oak chancel screen serves as a War Memorial from 1921, along with timber choir stalls. The chancel features a braced roof and Minton tiles on the floor and walls around the altar, along with marble and alabaster Gothic rederos.