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Glasgow, Clarkston, 532 Clarkston Road, Stamperland Church Of Scotland
Church (20th Century) (1941)
Site Name Glasgow, Clarkston, 532 Clarkston Road, Stamperland Church Of Scotland
Classification Church (20th Century) (1941)
Alternative Name(s) Stamperland Hill; Stamperland Gardens
Canmore ID 280638
Site Number NS55NE 268
NGR NS 57626 58070
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/280638
- Council East Renfrewshire
- Parish Mearns
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Eastwood
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS55NE 268 57626 58070
Stamperland Parish Church [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2010.
Stamperland Parish Church was recorded by the Threatened Buildings Survey on 18th August 2022. The survey was prompted by the closure and sale of the church. A service of closure was held at Stamperland Church on Sunday 26th June 2022. The church was founded in 1939 when the local churches of Greenbank, Netherlee and Williamwood came together to help found a new church in the fast-expanding community of Stamperland. The first service was held in a shop at 38 Stamperland Crescent on 25th February 1940.
A flat-roofed brick hall church was built in 1941, now the large hall. The Bas relief of the Pelican on south front is the only adornment. A hall, now the small hall, was added to the west and further accommodation was added to the north in 1949. In 1962-4 J Thomson King & Partners added a large new sanctuary to the west to complete the complex. This is a flat roofed clerestory-lit box with a tall concrete belfry tower signalling the entrance.
The Communion table of the 1941 church, gifted from the Glasgow Empire Exhibition to the Stamperland Church has now been moved with the congregation to Netherlee Church. A new larger communion table was installed in the new sanctuary in 1964 which is shown in the survey photographs. The three stained glass windows by Gordon Webster of St John’s vision of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse were a memorial to his father Alfred Webster. They were originally installed in Woodlands UP Church (Canmore ID 168186) and were removed in 1959 and installed in Stamperland as part of the new sanctuary in 1964. The windows have now been returned to the Webster family. The 1897 organ by Lewis & Co, Brixton was originally in Regents Place Church, Dennistoun was installed in 1962 with the pipes installed behind a new screen on the east wall.
Stamperland Church is unlisted and not in a conservation area.
