8 And 16 Queen Victoria Drive, Scotstoun West Parish Church And Hall

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 15/12/1970 Date Removed: 08/05/2024 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 53033 67651 Coordinates 253033, 667651 Removal Reason This building has been demolished. — CHURCH: James Chalmers, dated 1905. Hall: Stewart and Paterson 1929. Scots medieval Romanesque revival; cruciform with nave, chancel, apse, transepts and central tower with set back, tiled spire. Red snecked rubble, dressed for buttresses and plinth. MAIN ENTRANCE in gabled porch to SW, round-arched with incised archivolt, blind niche over, cross finial. Further N ENTRANCE in projecting section with cat-slide roof and arched doowary, 3 narrow lights over. Round-arched S (liturgical W) windows with geometric tracery, sculpted group in niche over. Transept with narrow arched windows. Large, buttressed square tower over crossing; simple 2-light windows with plate tracery; set back tiled spire with gabletted lucarnes. Apse with arched windows. Extensive halls to N, simple detailing, central round-arched entrance. INTERIOR: transept galleries. Machicolated apse cornice. Carved timber dado, pulpit, communion table. Tower with painted ceiling (Ss iconography), sculpted figures on corbels to each face; wagon roof to nave and transept galleries. 3 stained glass windows in S transept and in apse by Douglas Hamilton. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Hall demolished 12 September 1996, following wilful fire-raising.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.