Sherwood Parish Church, Glasgow Road, Paisley

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 27/03/1985 Local Authority Renfrewshire Planning Authority Renfrewshire Burgh Paisley NGR NS 49213 64180 Coordinates 249213, 664180 — James Donald, architect 1891-2. Large hall by Hamilton Neil, architect, 1925. Spire completed 1927. Free perpendicular Gothic. Rectangular plan with rear halls and projecting stair bay and spire to south front. Snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Gabled pointed-arch to front with 8-light window. Narrow link on right to 4-stage tower with slender spire, buttressed to lower 3 stages. Pointed arch door at base: 2 light window to 2nd: 2 lancets and arcaded corbelling to 3rd: open tall paired lancets with cusps and quatrefoils, and octagonal angle piers now without pinnacles to 4th. Gables with clock face, that to south now partly dismantled. Octagonal spire now without finial. Stair bay at west with pointed arch door and squat facetted tower with low broached slated spire. 4-bay side elevations; 3 bays with cusp-headed-windows, 2-light at ground, 3-light above. 4th-bay raised through wallhead and gabled; gabletted lancet at ground, plate tracery window over (2 lights and oculus). Slate roof. 2-storey halls to rear, with flat headed 2-lights to ground and trefoiled 2-lights to 1st. Attached to small on NE is 2-storey facetted porch. Interior galleried to sides and rear. Cast-iron colonnettes, Corinthian to ground, Composite to 1st. Arched brace collar beam roof. Stained glass to south window and 3 lancets at north by Stephen Adam 1920. — Cost of church and small hall $7000. Larger halls and Furnishings cost $8760. Stained glass cost $600. Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.