Penmount Chapel

Penmount Chapel is a fine two-storey classical chapel built with a four-bay front featuring scribed render. It has a hipped slate roof with ventilators, a moulded eaves cornice, rusticated quoins, and impost and cill bands. The gallery windows are round-arched with hood moulds and keystones, and there are coloured glass fanlights above small pane sash windows with marginal glazing bars. Below, similar windows are set in pedimented architraves. The central portico has a flush frame and is supported by two Ionic columns with entasis, along with a cornice, entablature, and end pilasters. There are three round-arched doorways with keystones and capitals, leading to 12-panel double doors. The side elevations have four windows, and at the east end, originally semi-octagonal, there is a projecting organ chamber.

To the left at the front is a small vestry and a passage leading to a Sunday School building at right angles; both have tall hipped slate roofs and scribed render elevations. The smaller range features three pointed windows. The Sunday School has a five-window side facing the chapel front with segmental-headed small pane sash windows, and a four-bay front with round-arched end entrances flanking central windows similar to those on the chapel front. There is a square belfry with a pyramidal roof and an ironwork finial. The broad gable end to the east contains four windows under an overall band. Attached to the north side is a low toilet block with original Victorian fittings from Barrhead.

Inside, the chapel features a classical galleried interior with fluted and gilded columns topped with Corinthian capitals. The panelled gallery front has advanced aedicules. The ceiling includes a coved cornice and a herringbone boarded band with roses, while triangular panels project into the central ceiling area, which is adorned with vast octofoil roses. Ionic fluted pilasters support the segmental arch of the organ chamber opening. There are balustraded steps leading up to the platform and a panelled boundary for the 'set canu'. Brass wall brackets are provided for lamps.