St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, Sinclair Street, Clydebank is a Grade B listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 September 1994. Church, presbytery.

St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, Sinclair Street, Clydebank

WRENN ID
sunken-transept-vetch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Dunbartonshire
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 September 1994
Type
Church, presbytery
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Gillespie, Kidd and Coia 1972.

CHURCH: Roughly rectangular, with yellow facing brick walls on 3 sides, and a small half-hexagonal apse. Roof aluminium clad, space-frame construction in centre, with glazing sloping from wallheads to centre panel.

FRONT ELEVATION: Timber framed glazed frontage with aluminium-clad oversailing flat roof on irregular polygonal plan. Front faces of porch and main roofs show as deep aluminium-panelled fascias, former lettered SAINT MARGARETS, with a cross.

SIDE AND REAR ELEVATIONS: Plain brick stretcher bond, with courses of vertically-set stretches at intervals. Some of latter omitted to give cavity-wall ventilation.

INTERIOR: Arranged for post-Vatican II liturgy from start. Tiered wooden seating arranged in fan round stone-faced altar on low dais, with tabernacle on brick 2-stage plinth at rear. Multi-recessed brick panelling to sides and rear reducing in height from centre with diagonal pine panelling above.

PRESBYTERY: 2-storey flat-roofed, timber clad, set in bunker with vertical brick inner walls and grassed 'glacis' on outer faces.

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