Linthouse Church, 9 Skipness Drive, Glasgow

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/10/1989 Local Authority Glasgow Planning Authority Glasgow Burgh Glasgow NGR NS 54251 65798 Coordinates 254251, 665798 — James Miller, 1899-1900. Arts and Crafts church, with halls and church officer's house on E flank, altered 1933 by Keppie and Henderson to provide new organ chamber, hall to W added 1953 by John S Boyd, architect. Stugged red ashlar with polished dressings. Slate roofs. Church: gabled main elevation to road flanked by battered square entrance towers fronting aisles, and each with off-centre doorway and topped by finialed and leaded ogee-domed open cupola; main (3-bay) gable with key-stoned main doorway central (2-leaf timber doors with iron hinges) set in columned and arched doorpiece, gallery windows set in giant scale Venetian window derived feature full width of gable and reaching into gable-head; skews; finialed decorative axial ventilator. Original hall: has mullioned small-paned windows to E flank (Hutton Drive), gable to Skipness Drive with kneeler skewputts, finialed axial ventilator; linked to church by archway facing Skipness Drive. Church officer's house: at S end of hall, fronting Hutton Drive; twin-gabled 2-storey elevation with door left, mullioned domestic-scale 1st floor windows, skews with kneeler skewputts, corniced square stack over front angle at right. Set behind decorative wrought-iron railings. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Memorial stone laid 24 June 1899; church opened 5 April 1900.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.