Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 564412
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/564412
Belmont & Hillhead Parish Church, 23 Saltoun Street, 1875, James Sellars
Won in competition, beating William Leiper and John Honeyman. Delightful French Gothic, inspired by Sainte Chapelle, Paris, but details adapted from the Lady Chapel of Saint Germer. West front rose window, large sculptured angels, twin turrets, slate roof, tiled cresting, elaborate flèche. Rib-vaulted timber roof and carved choir stalls; marble communion table; elaborate timber canopy to marble font; oak pulpit, 1924, T Taylor. Stained glass, 1893, Edward Burne-Jones; 1893-1903, Cottier & Co.; 1917, William Meikle & Sons; 1958, Sadie McLellan. Interior remodelled 1921, Dr Peter Macgregor Chalmers.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
