Interior - view of the nave and crossing

Description Interior - view of the nave and crossing

Date 1895

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

Catalogue Number SC 717211

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 13132

Scope and Content Nave and Crossing, Coats Memorial Baptist Church, High Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire Coats Memorial Baptist Church, a magnificent cruciform (cross-shaped) Gothic Revival church with a central tower which dominates the Paisley skyline, was designed by the architect, Hippolyte Jean Blanc, and built 1885-94 in memory of Thomas Coats, the Paisley threadmaker and philanthropist. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1895. The nave has an arched timber roof, and is lit naturally by clerestory widows with simple tracery set within wide pointed stone arches. Clustered piers with carved capitals support the pointed arches of the narrow side aisles, and the crossing beneath the tower (left) has stone ribbed cross vaults with painted panels between the ribs. Thomas Coats (1809-1883) was born in Paisley. He joined his brothers in their family thread manufacturing firm, J & P Coats, and became a key figure in the expansion of the company in Europe and North and South America. He was a lifelong member of the Baptist church and a generous benefactor who left an estate of £1.3 million. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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