St Mary's R.C. Church, 167 George St, Paisley

Pugin and Pugin architect 1891. Geometrical Decorated

Gothic rectangular plan 7-bay nave and buttressed aisles

and projecting porch. Apse added 1905. Squared rubble

with ashlar dressings. Front: gabled end of nave with

5-light traceried window, with semi-vesica in gable. Angle

buttresses 3-light traceried window at west end of north

aisle south to right is finialled gabled porch set forward

with 2 entrance arches and canopied niche over the statue.

3 cusped lights under segmental headed window at side.

Similar window to aisles and clerestory. 3 confessionals

added to west aisle. Beyond is apse; rectangular at ground

level and semi-octagonal ventilator with spirelet.

Interior: octagonal piers arcade. Organ gallery at west

with fretted balcony. Elaborate carved stone and marble

altar rails, and altarpieces to apse and flanking chapels.

4 niched statues flank apse windows. Couple roof to apse

and nave with painted square panels. Modern stained glass.