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Hall And Church Officer's House, Linthouse Church, 9 Skipness Drive, Glasgow

A Category B Listed Building in Govan, Glasgow

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8633 / 55°51'47"N

Longitude: -4.3307 / 4°19'50"W

OS Eastings: 254237

OS Northings: 665798

OS Grid: NS542657

Mapcode National: GBR 03K.6X

Mapcode Global: WH3P1.GW0J

Plus Code: 9C7QVM79+8P

Entry Name: Hall And Church Officer's House, Linthouse Church, 9 Skipness Drive, Glasgow

Listing Name: 9 Skipness Drive, Linthouse/St Kenneth's Church Including Original Church Hall and Church Officer's House

Listing Date: 12 October 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 376928

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33313

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200376928

Location: Glasgow

County: Glasgow

Town: Glasgow

Electoral Ward: Govan

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

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Description

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.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Memorial stone

laid 24 June 1899; church opened 5 April 1900.

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