Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565347
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565347
RC Church of the Sacred Heart, 50 Old Dalmarnock Road, 1909, Charles Jean (C J) Menart
Stern red sandstone exterior to Roman basilica. Internal concrete vault brilliantly lit from Venetian-windowed clerestory. Marble features in the chancel. Charles Baillie fresco, restored, 1954, William Crosbie; over the altar, Figure of Christ, 1954, Jack Mortimer; Stations of the Cross, 1954, William Crosbie. Jack Coia altered the ceiling in 1953. (See also this Belgian architect's more lavish St Aloysius, Garnethill, Central Glasgow Guide.) Presbytery, 1890, Pugin & Pugin. Plainer, rubble with ashlar dressings, top floor set back above main cornice, gabled dormer heads.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
