Kelvingrove Parish Church
The Kelvingrove Parish Church , formerly also Finnieston Parish Church , is a former church building and now residential building in the Scottish city of Glasgow . In 1966 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.
history
Kelvingrove Parish Church was built between 1879 and 1880 to a design by Scottish architect James Sellars . In 2009 the now obsolete church was converted into a residential building. There are 18 apartments set up there.
description
The building, designed in the classical Greek Revival , stands on the southern edge of Kelvingrove Park at the intersection of Bentinck Street and Derby Street in west Glasgow. Its masonry consists partly of polished stone blocks and roughly hewn quarry stone on the poorly visible northern side facade. A portico in the style of Greek temple architecture with four Ionic columns stands out on the east-facing front of the elongated church along Derby Street . The entablature and triangular gable are unadorned with the exception of the final acroterion . The central entrance portal closes with a frieze and crowning cornices .
The side facade along Bentick Street is seven axes wide. Doric pilasters flank the elongated windows on the five central axes of the two-story building . Friezes run below the windows. The outer windows are worked as pseudo- aedicules . There are two entrance doors and unadorned windows on the ground floor. The facade opposite is largely identical in design. At the back a suggested apse emerges as a flat elliptical arch. Above the entrance portal, a small tower rises from the slate roof. It is continued octagonal with Corinthian columns and closes with a dome.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Information on scottisharchitects.org.uk
Web links
- Entry on Kelvingrove Parish Church in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 55 ° 51 '59.6 " N , 4 ° 17' 5.1" W.