St Mirin's R.C. Cathedral, Incle Street, Paisley

Thomas Baird, 1930-32. Romanesque cathedral church with canted apse and tower-flanked narthex. Cream sandstone, squared and snecked with ashlar dressings, stone mullions. Sawtooth coped buttresses, nookshafts and scalloped corbel tables. Round-arched openings. Eaves course.

S ELEVATION (INCLE STREET): Gabled end to nave stepped 3-light window, cushioned-capitalled nookshafts, corbel table to

gablehead and cross finial, flanked by advanced, panelled corner shafts. Nave spanned at ground by 7-bay narthex of single storey 5-bay centre with single bay 2-stage, square section corner towers; 3 centre bays each with door, nookshafts to jambs, flanked by penultimate bays by small windows; squat towers with buttressed angles, square-headed bipartite windows to outer faces at ground and round-arched bipartites to upper stage, under scalloped corbel table, crenellated parapet and pyramidal slate roof.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: almost identical, 7-bay with corner towers as outer 8th bay to S and apse/sacristy corridor beyond to N. Each with 5-bay lean-to aisles at ground to centre with paired round-arched windows, broken by projecting, lean-to confessionals in penultimate bays to S and N, paired windows to clerestorey above. Outer bays gabled with tall paired windows in round-arched panels, further lean-to projections at ground to S, and gabled porches to N.

N ELEVATION: canted 2-stage apse encircled at ground by piended sacristy/offices/corridor, 3-light round-arched windows to upper stage at clerestorey. Cross finial to apex of nave gable behind.

Square-pane, leaded glazing, stained glass to apse. Grey slate roof, stone finials, ashlar coped skews.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND PIERS: coped sandstone dwarf walls to boundary with intermittent stone piers with battered coping; later railings.