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.
Detailed Attributes
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