Church Overview

The present building was opened in 1914, being the third to house this congregation.  The practice of H E Clifford & Lunan was chosen to design the building in Perpendicular Gothic style using white sandstone.  Interior woodwork is white American oak throughout. 

The Memorial Window was donated in 1921 by Mr Stephens of Stephens-Linthouse, the Glasgow shipbuilders, the design attributed to Sidney Meteyard, known as “The last of the Pre-Raphaelites”. The organ is a very fine Harrison and Harrison, rebuilt by them in 1961 and 2013 with electro-pneumatic, electronic action.  The cost of the original organ of 1914 was subsidised by the Andrew Carnegie Trust by £400,  half the cost! 

The floor of the chancel is paved in Iona marble mosaic and must surely be one of the last such works before the quarries on the island were worked out.  The Pulpit and Font are both carved from Auchenheath white sandstone.  The Pulpit front has Alpha and Omega and the Greek form of Christ carved on the front face.  The Font has a fish carved into the stone, an early Christian symbol and the metal bowl insert was made by the Birmingham Craft Studio in 1913, a studio similar in design output to that of the famous William Morris Studio at Merton Abbey.  The lectern in carved oak was anonymously donated as a memorial to the lives lost in the Second World War.

Services

Sunday: 10.30 -11.45 am

Opening Arrangements

08.00 – 21.30 hours – 6 days\week

08.00 – 12.30 hours – 1 day\week

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