Church Of Scotland, Orr Square, Paisley, Paisley, Renfrewshire

Entry Name: Church Of Scotland, Orr Square, Paisley

Listing Name: Orr Square Church of Scotland

Listing Date: 27 June 1980

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384640

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39093

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Paisley, Orr Square, Church Of Scotland

ID on this website: 200384640

Location: Paisley

County: Renfrewshire

Town: Paisley

Electoral Ward: Paisley East and Central

Traditional County: Renfrewshire

Tagged with: Church building

Description

1845. Church and Hall Group. Neo-Norman. Ashlar. Church
6-bay rectangle with tower projecting from south east bay.
Base course. South front: windows all round-headed with
nook shafts all hoodmoulds. Central round-arched doorway
similarly detailed, flanked by small windows, blind
arcading and 3 large windows above; small louvred window
in gable. Skew with dog tooth ornament. Buttressed aisle
and finial cross to left has 2-light upper window under
hoodmould, and separate gable. 4-stage tower to right:
1st with 2 windows; 2nd with 2-light window; 3rd with
blind intersecting arcading and blind oculus; 4th with
2 storey belfry openings (single window to north face.
Decorative corbel courses below with round-arched
balustrade (removed from north face) and corner pinnacles.
String courses between stages. 6-bay sides with unmoulded
round-headed windows between raised strips and simple
corbels course over. Rear of rubble and slightly advanced
centre bay with 3 windows. Interior: narthex in western
bay, stairs to gallery. Body of church has galleries to
3 sides with thin columns continued up to roof. Area
between columns and side walls spanned by plaster groin
vaults, while central portion spanned from column to column.
Windows leaded. Modern stained glass to north window.
Hall: neo- Norman, 2-storey, with angle buttressed,
ashlar. Door windows round headed with nook shafts.
South front has advanced and gabletted entrance flanked by
pairs of windows. Bands of interlace arcading over windows.
3 windows to 1st floor and small one to gable. Dogtooth
ornamented skews. Side elevations have 2 windows at ground
and band course over. Cill course to 1st floor pair of
coupled windows. Corbelled parapet. Slate roof with stack
to rear gable.

Statement of Interest

Built as Free High Church. Cost $5,167 8s 10d.

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

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