Renfrew North Parish Church, Renfield Street, Renfrew

Renfrew North Parish Church, built between 1882 and 1883, is a Gothic-style church featuring a two-stage spire. The structure is made of squared and snecked stone with ashlar dressings and includes gablet buttresses. The pointed arch openings are adorned with hoodmoulds, and there is an encircling string course at the impost level of the principal door.

On the southwest elevation, the tower is engaged to the left. The narrow gable of the nave and narthex is at the center, featuring a door in a deeply moulded surround, with two-leaf boarded doors that have decorative hinges and small cusped lights on either side. Above, there are tall paired lancets with geometric tracery, leading into the gablehead, which has slender slit windows flanking it and a moulded oculus above. A cross finial tops the gable, with gablet-capped buttresses on either side that have stepped slit ornamentation at the head above the neck band. To the right, there is a low return of the gabled baptistery with a lancet window.

The tower rises from the west corner and has a tall first stage featuring pilaster-buttresses, a lancet, an inscribed panel, and a louvred pair of arrowslits. The upper stage is recessed on a battered course, with each face displaying louvred bipartite lancets framed by engaged polygonal pinnacles that break the wallhead, topped with stone conical caps. There is a neckband and a slit on each face, and the wallhead has a scalloped corbel table.

The northeast elevation showcases a gable end with stepped tripartite lancets and stained glass glazing in the end gables, all under a slate roof.

Inside, the church has a U-plan gallery with a full-height pointed arch arcade and an open roof. The dado is partly boarded, with plastered walls above. Doors feature quatrefoil details, which are also repeated in sections of the gallery's panelled front and on the panelled back of the pulpit and double stair. Fixed pews are arranged with two aisles. Organ pipes, introduced in 1899, are located in two sections over the doors flanking the pulpit. The gallery is supported by cast-iron columns with broad, decorative foliaceous capitals. The roof features stone corbels to the braces between the arches. The font, Communion Table, and Lectern all have Gothic detailing, creating a cohesive design.

The boundary walls consist of saddleback coped rubble with simple iron railings and gates, complemented by ashlar gatepiers topped with gablet caps.