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Paisley, Canal Street, Canal Street Church
Church (18th Century), War Memorial(S) (20th Century)
Site Name Paisley, Canal Street, Canal Street Church
Classification Church (18th Century), War Memorial(S) (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Castlehead Church; War Memorial Rolls Of Honour
Canmore ID 164457
Site Number NS46SE 111
NGR NS 47544 63598
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/164457
- Council Renfrewshire
- Parish Paisley (Renfrew)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Renfrew
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS46SE 111 47544 63598
NS46SE 11. 01 47521 63631
Rectangular-plan, gabled, hall church. Rubble with painted ashlar dressings, quoin strips, eaves course, impost blocks and keystones to round-headed windows.Door to centre of main gable in corniced stone porch, flanked by tall windows, with shorter window stepped above. 5 tall windows to each side. Rear gable with later, harled flat-roofed vestry block spanning ground, 3 stepped windows above, that to centre with higher cill. Horizontal-pane glazing pattern with astragalled circular panes in windowheads, simple wheel window above organ, some coloured glass. Urn finials capping quoins and gableheads.
Built as a United Presbyterian church, Castlehead was latterly known as the West Relief Church, presumably after the absorption of the UP denomination into the Church of Scotland. See separate listing for Tannahill's Monument. Change of category B to C(S) 8 September 1997.
