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Glasgow, 86 Saracen Street, St Teresa's Roman Catholic Church
Church (20th Century), Gate Pier (20th Century), Gateway (20th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, 86 Saracen Street, St Teresa's Roman Catholic Church
Classification Church (20th Century), Gate Pier (20th Century), Gateway (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Roman Catholic Church Of Saint Teresa
Canmore ID 141919
Site Number NS56NE 642
NGR NS 59155 67456
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/141919
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
St Teresa of Lisieux RC Church, 86-90 Saracen Street, 1956, Alexander McAnally
The dominant public building of Possil. Romanesque T-plan church, red brick, cream dressings, round-arched openings, relief of St Teresa on tower, aluminium spire. Rich high-quality timber and marble interior; stained glass, Guthrie & Wells. Fire-damaged hall replaced by new stepped range of barrel-vaulted, glazed timber function rooms constructed inside, 1995, Page & Park: Europa Nostra Award, 1996.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NS56NE 642.00 59155 67456
St Theresa's RC Church [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, November 2009.
NS56NE 642.01 NS 59207 67489 Presbytery
Publication Account (1997)
Designed in 1955, this Possilpark church by one of the country's leading Roman Catholic ecclesiastical architects, demonstrates the continuing postwar vitality of the deep-rooted tradition of neo-Romanesque architecture. Close parallels to this thick-set brick style are to be found in the postware Catholic church-building of the Netherlands and West Germany: it is perhaps relevant that the main basilica of St Teresa, at Lisieux, is a massive Romanesque 1920s building. (Fig. 4.59).
Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75', (1997).
