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St Mungo's R.C. Church, 58 Parson Street, Glasgow

A Category B Listed Building in Glasgow, Glasgow

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8657 / 55°51'56"N

Longitude: -4.2381 / 4°14'17"W

OS Eastings: 260040

OS Northings: 665874

OS Grid: NS600658

Mapcode National: GBR 0PK.Z2

Mapcode Global: WH3P2.WT1P

Plus Code: 9C7QVQ86+7Q

Entry Name: St Mungo's R.C. Church, 58 Parson Street, Glasgow

Listing Name: 60 Parson Street, St Mungo's Church

Listing Date: 4 September 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 375745

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB32814

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: St Mungo's Church, Glasgow
St Mungo's Church
58 Parson Street, St Mungo's R.c. Church

ID on this website: 200375745

Location: Glasgow

County: Glasgow

Town: Glasgow

Electoral Ward: Anderston/City/Yorkhill

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival Catholic church building

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Description

George Goldie, 1841 and 1877. Italianate Gothic Roman
Catholic church. Rectangular plan. Cream sandstone,
squared and snecked with ashlar base, band and string
courses, and dressings. Pointed openings.
S ELEVATION: gabled entrance bay at centre with
tripartite narthex supported on red granite columns
with foliate capitals; gabled finialled hoodmoulds
carved above. Off-set upper gable with architraved
pointed arch recessed panel; 2 cusped 2-light windows
inset, with quatrefoils, blind roundels and rose window
in apex; trefoil oculus at apex of gable and cross
finial. Angle buttress to right, flanked by tall single
storey bay with hoodmoulded pointed arch panel, filled
with cusped 2-light and decoratively carved roundel,
polygonal spirelet at SE angle, with lancets to each
face and stone spire, with carved fish-scale bands.
TOWER: squat, incomplete square tower flanking entrance
gable to W; angle buttresses and lancets below stone
bracketted shallow piend roof.
Pointed arch clerestory windows with cusped 2-light
windows and circular oculi above to side elevations.
Square lead-pane glazing. Grey slates.
INTERIOR: aisled nave with apse.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Adjoined to E at

S by St Mungo's Retreat, listed separately, and to N

by St Mungo's Hall, not included in current listing.

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