Sherwood Parish Church, Glasgow Road, Paisley

James Donald, architect 1891-2. Large hall by Hamilton

Neil, architect, 1925. Spire completed 1927. Free

perpendicular Gothic. Rectangular plan with rear halls and

projecting stair bay and spire to south front. Snecked

rubble with ashlar dressings. Gabled pointed-arch to front

with 8-light window. Narrow link on right to 4-stage tower

with slender spire, buttressed to lower 3 stages. Pointed

arch door at base: 2 light window to 2nd: 2 lancets and

arcaded corbelling to 3rd: open tall paired lancets with

cusps and quatrefoils, and octagonal angle piers now

without pinnacles to 4th. Gables with clock face, that to

south now partly dismantled. Octagonal spire now without

finial. Stair bay at west with pointed arch door and squat

facetted tower with low broached slated spire. 4-bay side

elevations; 3 bays with cusp-headed-windows, 2-light at

ground, 3-light above. 4th-bay raised through wallhead and

gabled; gabletted lancet at ground, plate tracery window

over (2 lights and oculus). Slate roof. 2-storey halls

to rear, with flat headed 2-lights to ground and trefoiled

2-lights to 1st. Attached to small on NE is 2-storey facetted

porch. Interior galleried to sides and rear. Cast-iron

colonnettes, Corinthian to ground, Composite to 1st. Arched

brace collar beam roof. Stained glass to south window and

3 lancets at north by Stephen Adam 1920.