Former St John's Church, School Wynd, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Church. 1 related planning application.

Former St John's Church, School Wynd, Paisley

WRENN ID
sacred-tracery-cedar
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 March 1985
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

James Salmon and Son architects. 1862-3. 2nd pointed Gothic;

rectangular plan with semi-octagonal apse. Snecked rubble

with ashlar dressings. Gabled front with bold inner

buttresses, capped by octagonal turrets with pierced

ornament, and spirelets, ard angle buttresses capped by

pyramidal pinnacles. Central door of 3-order pointed arch,

2 with nook shafts and stiff-leaf capitals. 5-light

window with plate tracery over. Lancets with plate tracery

to aisles. 6-bay sides divided by buttresess. Lancets as

front to bays nearest front, with door below on left side,

2-light window with quatrefoil to 5 remaining bays.

Parapet pierced by quatrefoils. End buttresses pinnacled.

Taller apse with lancets to 3 full facets and pierced

parapet. Slate roof with bands in fish-scale pattern.

Interior has galleries to 3 sides with colonettes to ground.

Organ in apse. Hammerbeam roof.

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