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St James Pollock Church, 183 Meiklerig Crescent, Glasgow

A Category B Listed Building in Cardonald, Glasgow

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8343 / 55°50'3"N

Longitude: -4.3487 / 4°20'55"W

OS Eastings: 252997

OS Northings: 662618

OS Grid: NS529626

Mapcode National: GBR 3N.5GHP

Mapcode Global: WH3P7.5MF5

Plus Code: 9C7QRMM2+PG

Entry Name: St James Pollock Church, 183 Meiklerig Crescent, Glasgow

Listing Name: 183 Meiklerig Crescent and Templeland Road St James' Pollok Church of Scotland Including Hall and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 15 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 377392

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33601

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: 183 Meiklerig Crescent, St James Pollock Church

ID on this website: 200377392

Location: Glasgow

County: Glasgow

Town: Glasgow

Electoral Ward: Cardonald

Traditional County: Renfrewshire

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Description

H E Clifford church of 1893-5 re-sited here 1951 by Thomson, McCrea and Sanders and with early 20th century hall at N. CHURCH is gothic. Red ashlar with unusual surface tooling, probably re-cut; hood-moulded, traceried windows. Roughly cruciform-plan, tall paired windows in buttressed lofty W transept, latter linked by low shallow side aisle to large porch at S end of nave; gallery stair turret on transept N wall. Slated roofs. Set behind boundary wall with railings linking intermediate piers, large drum gatepiers near porch. Interior shares characteristics with Clifford's Cathcart Parish Church (as do the plan and street front); exposed stonework; aisle arcades, tall 2-arched opening to W transept, area below gallery now screened off; rood screen re-used at side chapel opposite; shallow gallery at S, distinctive panelled front; open-timbered roof.

Hall has traceried window in W gable and is linked to church.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Originally Titwood Established church, Glencairn Drive; original foundation stone laid by Lord Blythswood 18 November 1893; church re-opened on this site 2 June 1951.

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