Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church
The Kelvinside Hillhead Parish 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 B monument ensemble.
history
The architecture firm Douglas & Sellars won the tender for the new church . However, you should not implement your own draft, but a revised version of the draft by William Leiper . After work began in 1876, the church opened the following year. Peter MacGregor Chalmers was entrusted with the revision of the parish church around 1921. In 1925 Hutton & Taylor installed a new pulpit. In 1929 and 1955 additions were made. The leaded glass windows were created by various artists and inserted over the decades. The window from 1893 comes from Edward Burne-Jones , Cottier & Co. was active until 1903, William Meikle & Sons in 1917 and Sadie McLellan in 1958 .
description
Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church is on Saltoun Street in west Glasgow. The neo-Gothic building is designed in the style of the French Gothic . It shows parallels to the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris . The masonry consists of hewn stone blocks of different sizes with natural stone details . The ogival main portal on the western gable side has two doors separated by a trumeau . Above that there is a large rose window in a pointed arched recess with slender columns and a profiled reveal . Large angel reliefs decorate their gussets. Massive buttresses flank the area. They run out in pseudo- aedicules that are connected to one another by a blend arcade . Bell towers with a hexagonal floor plan rise on both sides, ending in pointed helmets.
The flanks of the hall church are five axes wide. High tracery , each consisting of three lancet windows with rose windows, stretch between the buttresses . They close with profiled gables. The seven windows of the polygonal apse are designed in the same way. At the apse the final cornice is decorated with gargoyles . The final roof is covered with slate.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Information on scottisharchitects.org.uk
- ↑ Entry on Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
Web links
- Scotland's Churches Trust information
- Entry on Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 55 ° 52 ′ 39.1 ″ N , 4 ° 17 ′ 35.7 ″ W.