Belhaven-Westbourne Church

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The Belhaven-Westbourne Church is a church building of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in the Scottish city of Glasgow . In 1970 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A. It is also part of a more comprehensive category A monument ensemble.

history

The construction of the church for the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, based on a design by Scottish architect John Honeyman , began in 1881. The building was opened on September 18, 1881. In 1913 a recess was made for an organ and related changes were made. Douglas Strachan created the stained glass windows around 1920. The younger windows, installed around 1951, are designed by Margaret Chilton .

With the merger of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland with the Free Church of Scotland and their further merger, the church came to the Church of Scotland in 1929.

description

Belhaven-Westbourne Church is located at Westbourne Gardens in the western Hillhead district of Glasgow . It is designed in neo-renaissance styles . A striking two-story portico with four paired columns emerges from the east-facing front facade . Ionic columns were built on the ground floor , and Corinthian columns above . They have a final triangular gable with a tooth cut . The two-winged main portal, like the flanking windows, is embedded in round-arched recesses with keystones in the rusticated masonry. The round-arched lead glass windows on the upper floor are designed with profiled cornices . Set back, two small open bell towers with round arches and curved domes flank the portico.

On the left, the community hall connects to the five-axis long nave. It is designed in the same way as the church facade. A tooth cut below the final cornice is continued from the church over the building. A stone balustrade runs above it .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ Information on scottisharchitects.org.uk
  3. ↑ Entry on Belhaven-Westbourne Church  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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Coordinates: 55 ° 52 ′ 53.6 "  N , 4 ° 18 ′ 11"  W.