Basic Site Details Name: | St Columba's Church (Gaelic) | City or county: | Glasgow | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Cost £15,000.
The new church is composed of nave and transepts and accommodates close upon 1,100 sitters. There are galleries in the transepts and a gallery at the end of the nave. The other accommodation includes a hall to seat 350, a smaller hall for 120, sessions house, vestry, choir vestry, ladies’ room and kitchen. A church officer’s house is also provided. The organ is divided and placed in arched chambers on each side of the chancel arch while the pulpit is placed on one side of the nave, outside the chancel. A spire, rising to a height of 200 feet forms a conspicuous feature, the spire having pinnacles and belfry stage for bell, and with niche and canopy in which is placed a statue of the patron saint, St Columba. The architects are Messrs William Tennant and Fred V Burke and the building will cost about £15,000 [Builder 9 November 1901 Page 419]
A new church has just been erected in St Vincent Street Glasgow for the St Columba Gaelic Congregation of the Church of Scotland who were dispossessed of their former church in Hope Street by the extension of the Central Railway Station. The mason work is of red freestone and is worked in rock faced irregular courses with finely tooled dressings. The style of architecture is Gothic of the Early Decorated period and the plan of the building is cruciform, having wide nave and narrow aisles - the latter used only as passages - and chancel with semi-octagonal apse end. The church is seated for 1,000 persons. In a niche over the doorway is a statue of St Columba, 8 feet high. The architect is Mr William Tennant, 219 Hope Street, Glasgow. The cost of the church and site is about £30,000. [British Architect 30 September 1904 Page 253]
| Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Church | | |
Street AddressesThe following street addresses are associated with this building: | | Address | Main entrance? | Notes | | 300, St Vincent Street | Yes | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1901 | 1904 | | | | c. 1901 | | | Competition held | | 16 March 1904 | | Journal reference | Church nearing completion | | 1905 | | Design exhibited | |
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Academy Architecture | 1902 | | part 1 | | p78 (Balfour design) | | Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts | 1902 | | | | 570 (Balfour design) | | Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts | 1905 | | | | 491 (H & D Barclay design) | | Williamson, Riches, Higgs | 1990 | Glasgow (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p204 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | British Architect | 30 September 1904 | | | p253 | | Builder | 9 November 1901 | LXXXI | | p419 | | Building Industries | 15 November 1901 | | | | | Building Industries | 16 March 1904 | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 33168 | |
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