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St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, Sinclair Street, Clydebank

A Category B Listed Building in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8965 / 55°53'47"N

Longitude: -4.3853 / 4°23'6"W

OS Eastings: 250948

OS Northings: 669617

OS Grid: NS509696

Mapcode National: GBR 3M.1D67

Mapcode Global: WH3P0.L1ZZ

Plus Code: 9C7QVJW7+JV

Entry Name: St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, Sinclair Street, Clydebank

Listing Name: Sinclair Street, St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery

Listing Date: 23 September 1994

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 358734

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB22994

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Clydebank, Sinclair Street, St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church

ID on this website: 200358734

Location: Clydebank

County: West Dunbartonshire

Town: Clydebank

Electoral Ward: Clydebank Waterfront

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

Tagged with: Catholic church building

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Description

Gillespie, Kidd and Coia 1972.

CHURCH: Roughly rectangular, with yellow facing brick walls on 3 sides, and a small half-hexagonal apse. Roof aluminium clad, space-frame construction in centre, with glazing sloping from wallheads to centre panel.

FRONT ELEVATION: Timber framed glazed frontage with aluminium-clad oversailing flat roof on irregular polygonal plan. Front faces of porch and main roofs show as deep aluminium-panelled fascias, former lettered SAINT MARGARETS, with a cross.

SIDE AND REAR ELEVATIONS: Plain brick stretcher bond, with courses of vertically-set stretches at intervals. Some of latter omitted to give cavity-wall ventilation.

INTERIOR: Arranged for post-Vatican II liturgy from start. Tiered wooden seating arranged in fan round stone-faced altar on low dais, with tabernacle on brick 2-stage plinth at rear. Multi-recessed brick panelling to sides and rear reducing in height from centre with diagonal pine panelling above.

PRESBYTERY: 2-storey flat-roofed, timber clad, set in bunker with vertical brick inner walls and grassed 'glacis' on outer faces.

Statement of Interest

Only Gillespie Kidd and Coia church designed for the reformed liturgy (introduced in 1968).

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