St James' Church Of Scotland, Underwood Road, Paisley

1. H J Blanc, architect. 1st and 2nd pointed Gothic,

cruciform church with steeple. Snecked rubble with ashlar

dressings. Nave and aisles gabled front. Paired central doors

under carved lintel with moulded reveals and nook shafts

gabled and buttressed, flanked by coupled lancets. Above rise

3 lancets with stilted arches, flanked by angle buttresses

with conical pinnacles. Lean-to aisle to west with lancet and

angles buttresses. To east connecting passage to steeple

with 2 tiers of triple lancets. Angle buttressed tower in 6

stages, separated by string courses and spire.

Variety of windows in 4 lower stages; louvred arcading in

5th stage; 6th stage octagonal with louvred lancets and

octagonal pinnacles. Facetted spire with 4 lucarnes.

4-bay nave separated by buttresses. Coupled lancets to aisle.

2-light with sexfoils to clerestory. Double gabled transepts.

Triple lancets to each gable, those to east transept with

stilted arches and clustered colonnettes.

Semi-octagonal apse with lancets. Halls, and vestry clustered

around north end. Original hall to NW extended 2 bays by Blanc

1. Slate roof tiles to all parts with crest tiles to Church

and 1st hall, fleche over crossing of church. Interior: nave

arcades with moulded pointed arches with clerestory over. Rear

west bay occupied by narthex with glazed wooden traceried

screen of arches supported by column and half columns with

detached colonnettes.

Chanel arch to north.

Curved coupled wooden roofs to nave and transepts (where

doubled) and wooden vaulting to chancel. Furnishings mostly

gifted by Coats family 1903-4: canopied stalls to end walls

of transepts and across chancel arch, chancel occupied by

organ.

Pulpit front panel designed by James E Christie. Font by a

"Mr Rhind of Edinburgh."

Stained glass except for triple lancets at south and 2 small

windows in east aisle is by Ballantine and Gardiner 1903-4.