Interior. View of altar showing communion table and pulpit.

Description Interior. View of altar showing communion table and pulpit.

Date 1913

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number BL 22114

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 717173, B 64825

Scope and Content Chancel, Lansdowne Parish Church, Nos 416-20 Great Western Road, Glasgow Lansdowne Parish Church, a striking Gothic Revival church standing in a prominent position above the east bank of the River Kelvin, was designed by the architect, John Honeyman, and built in 1862-3 for the United Presbyterians. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1913. The chancel, a three-sided apse, is lined with decorative oak panelling with intricate traceried detail in the form of little canopies. On each side is fixed oak seating, and in the centre is a marble communion table with inlays of a variety of coloured marbles. The raised oak-panelled pulpit was installed, like the communion table and the oak baptismal font (foreground), in 1910. John Honeyman (1831-1914) originally intended to enter the Church, but gave up his theological studies in favour of architecture. In 1854 he set up in practice in Glasgow with a particular interest in medieval and Gothic architecture. He was employed as an architect on the restoration of Glasgow Cathedral, helped in the restoration of the cathedrals of Brechin and Iona, and designed churches at Slateford, Greenock and Perth. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

External Reference Box 66

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