Glasgow, Carmunnock Road, Cathcart Old Parish Church, Old Parish Manse
Manse (20th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, Carmunnock Road, Cathcart Old Parish Church, Old Parish Manse
Classification Manse (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 115 Carmunnock Road; Cathcart Manse
Canmore ID 163888
Site Number NS56SE 591.01
NGR NS 58822 60648
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/163888
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Cathcart (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
Cathcart Old Parish Church and Session House, 119 Carmunnock Road, 1914, H E Clifford
Perpendicular Gothic, completed and opened 1929, Watson, Salmond & Gray. Big buttresses, square tower, simplified hammerbeam roof, stained glass, some by Douglas Hamilton and by R Anning Bell. Cathcart Old Parish Manse, No 115, c.1914, possibly H E Clifford. Matching grey stone, to north of church, mullioned windows, broad-eaved slate roof. Cathcart Old Parish Churchyard, No 118. Roofless tower and west gable, the remaining fragments of original church, 1830, James Dempster. Also in churchyard contemporary Watchhouse built into boundary wall and important monuments including: pair of late medieval recumbent slabs; recumbent 1685 Martyrs' slab; John McIntyre Monument, 1867, Alexander Thomson, Egypto-Greek domed cylinder; Thomas Brown of Langside aisle, 1782, possibly Robert Adam, neoclassical.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
