Castlemilk, Glenacre Terrace, Castlemilk West Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 29/05/2001 Date Removed: 14/10/2021 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 59560 59363 Coordinates 259560, 659363 Removal Reason This building has been demolished. — Gratton & McLean, 1957-58. Rectangular-plan, ark-like church with curvilinear roof and opposite elevations mirrored. Steel frame with brick facing, projecting header patternwork at ground, rendered and jettied above with dividing canopy course; boarded timber sections. Curtain wall glazing at intervals. ENTRANCE ELEVATIONS: doors to centre with broad, segmental canopied porch on slender pillars. Advanced rendered and vertically panelled section behind, each panel with pointed head (creating chevron effect). Recessed corner sections (stair halls) in timber with windows, in deep band to upper section with vertically glazed lights (that to left of main entrance replaced with modern glazing departing from original pattern). SIDE ELEVATIONS: curtain window under canopy to centre, with jambs at 90?. Further windows to outer corners under upswept canopy. Jettied upper stage with dominant vertically-glazed window to taller centre section under curvilinear roof, central mullion and upper transom used to include crucifix motif, each light with pointed arch head, continuing chevron detail. 6 narrow lights in horizontal line flanking each side (echoing port holes), each with ventilating panel above under eaves and below above canopy course. Outer corners glazed timber returns of entrance elevations. Coloured and mottled opaque glass in metal-framed windows. Box-like rainwater hoppers in re-entrant angles. Steel roof covered in copper. Metal filigreed and chevroned fleche with attenuated mast and cross finial. Loud-speakers(?) at foot of fleche. INTERIOR: lower hall

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.