Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565503
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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St Columba of Iona RC Church, 74-76 Hopehill Road, 1937, Gillespie, Kidd & Coia
Basilican plan with low aisles and bold central entrance tower at west, featuring Italian Romanesque details adapted for West of Scotland climate. Concrete portal frame, glass and brick, steep tiled mansard roof. Stone features at entrance and to adjoining brick presbytery. Painted panels of Stations of the Cross brought here from the Empire Exhibition, Hugh Adam Crawford. Marble altar screen and carved crucifix, Benno Schotz.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk