St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Strathleven Place, Dumbarton

Dunn and Hansom of Newcastle, architects. Built 1900-3.

Aisled, 8-bay Gothic church with lower chancel, sanctuary

added later; detached 3-stage tower added to west 1926-7,

Pugin and Pugin of London, architects. All bullfaced red

snecked rubble with polished dressings. Church has simply

detailed principal gabled elevation to Strathleven Place; 2

doors recessed under moulded arches with flanking blind

arches, cross-finialed gable above with figure of St Patrick

in canopied niche; 3 lancets above; angle buttresses;

hood-mould to all openings; gable oculus; single hood-moulded

and plate-traceried aisle windows. Paired, hood-moulded

windows with cusped heads to aisle and clerestory, aisle bays buttressed. West aisle has gabled door at north end.

Traceried window to south (chancel) gable. Flat-roofed

sacristy at south west corner (other roofs slated, with red

ridge tiles).

Interior: aisle arcades on circular piers. Small organ

gallery at north with panelled front and flanking pipes.

Baptistry in eastern aisle. High altar with reredos under

gothic baldacchino all in marble. Marble altar and reredos to

chapels at south end of either aisle; octagonal marble

pulpit. Painted panels on walls of Stations of the Cross.

Rood hangs from chancel arch; painted figure of St Michael by

Eric Gill; some leaded glass windows; timbered roof. Tower

linked to west aisle. Traceried windows to 2 faces of lower

stage; figure in canopied niche to 3 faces of 2nd stage,

flanked by cusped lights. 3rd stage, large pointed, louvered

and traceried belfry window to each face. Stepped angle buttresses (enclosing stair at north west) rising into pinnacles, these

linked by corbelled parapet, pierced and crenellated.

Set behind low, red, bullfaced rubble boundary wall with

square gatepiers and simple iron gates and railings.