Canal Street Church, Canal Street, Paisley

Canal Street Church, located on Canal Street in Paisley, was built between 1781 and 1782 and refurbished in 1868. It is a rectangular-plan, gabled hall church constructed of rubble with painted ashlar dressings. The building features quoin strips, an eaves course, impost blocks, and keystones above the round-headed windows. The main gable has a central door set within a corniced stone porch, flanked by tall windows, with a shorter window positioned above. Each side of the church has five tall windows. The rear gable includes a later harled flat-roofed vestry block, which spans the ground and has three stepped windows above, with the central window having a higher cill. The windows have a horizontal-pane glazing pattern with astragalled circular panes at the top, and there is a simple wheel window above the organ, along with some coloured glass. Urn finials adorn the quoins and gableheads.

Inside, the church features a hall space with a flat ceiling and a boarded dado. There is a raked gallery supported by cast-iron columns with a panelled front. The interior includes two aisles with panelled pews, and the pews are arranged at right angles in the choir position, with a curved section by the communion table. The furnishings include a yellow communion table, elders' seats, a pulpit, and an organ case, along with a lectern and font. The windows have deep embrasures, and there is a simple plasterwork cornice.

The graveyard contains classical gravestones, including one for Robert Tannahill, the poet, who lived from 1774 to 1810, as well as gravestones for victims of the cholera outbreak in 1832.