Glasgow Churches Buildings: Kirks, Chapels, Cathedral

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Glasgow Churches : Buildings

Kirks, Chapels + Cathedrals in the west of Scotland, UK

post updated 9 December 2023

Glasgow Church Buildings

Major Historic Religious Building in the city:

St Vincent Street, financial district, west of the city centre
St Vincent Street Church
St Vincent Street photograph © AW
St Vincent Street Church, St Vincent St, central/west Glasgow

Recent Key Religious Building in the city:

Gorbals Parish Church
Design: ADF Architects
Gorbals Parish Church
Gorbals architecture photo © Keith Hunter Photography
Gorbals Parish Church

Church of St Paul the Apostle
Church of St Paul the Apostle
photo © Andrew Lee
The category B-listed Church of St Paul the Apostle stands on the busy Shettleston Road two miles east of Glasgow City Centre. Jack Coia, of Glasgow architects Gillespie Kidd and Coia, designed the church in an Italian Baroque style, and it was built from 1957 to 1959. The Cube – design by Page Park Architects. 22 Nov 2011

Strathclyde religious building photos from 10 Feb 2011

Cathcart Old Parish Church
Cathcart Old Parish Church
photograph © Adrian Welch

Glasgow Catholic Cathedral
Glasgow Catholic Cathedral
Catholic Cathedral photograph © Adrian Welch

Featured Key Glasgow Churches

Key Religious Buildings in the city, alphabetical:

Caledonia Road, Caledonia Rd, Gorbals, south Glasgow
Building in Gorbals
Gorbals ruined building photograph © AW
Caledonia Road Church

Queens Cross Church, Garscube
Architect: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Queens Cross Church
Garscube architecture photo © Isabelle Lomholt
Queens Cross Church

Queen’s Park United Presbyterian Church, Langside Road
Architect: Alexander “Greek” Thomson
Queen’s Park Church

Ruchill Free Church Halls, Ruchill St
Ruchill Free Church Halls

St George’s Tron Church
Architect: William Stark
St George's Tron Church Glasgow
property photograph © AJW
St George’s Tron Church, central/west Glasgow

Tron Kirk – redeveloped as a theatre
Tron Kirk Glasgow
Tron building photo © AW
Tron Kirk Glasgow

St Andrews in the Square Church
Dates built: 1739-59
Architects: Allan Dreghorn & Mungo Naismith
St Andrews Church
St Andrews in the Square property photo from 2002
St Andrews in the Square Church, central/east Glasgow

St Mary’s Episcopal Church, 300 Great Western Road
Date built: 1871
Architect: Sir George Gilbert Scott
St Mary’s Church Glasgow

Modern Glasgow Church Building

St Benedict’s Church, Easterhouse
St Benedict's Glasgow
Easterhouse architecture photo © AW
St Benedict’s Church Glasgow

Glasgow Churches

John Street Church
John Street Church
John Street structure photograph © Adrian Welch

Ramshorn Kirk
Ramshorn Kirk
Ramshorn Kirk building photograph © AJW

St Aloysius Church:
St Aloysius Church
St Aloysius photograph © AJW

Contemporary Glasgow Church
Pollockshaws Road
architectural image from architect studio
Destiny Church

St Stephens Renfield Church
St Stephens Renfield Church
St Stephens Renfield photo © Adrian Welch

More Glasgow Churches – no photos

Adelaide Place Baptist Church
1877, 1995
209 Bath Street
Thomas L Watson, conversion Gillespies

Battlefield East Church
1864-5
1220 Cathcart Road
John Honeyman
corner of Battlefield Road

Broomhill Parish Church
1902-3
64-66 Randolph Road
Stewart and Paterson

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
1968, 1978, 1988
35 Julian Avenue
–

Glasgow Evangelical Church
1880
18 Cathedral Square
John Honeyman

Govan Old Parish Church
1884-98
866 Govan Road
Robert Rowand Anderson

Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church
1876
23 Saltoun Street
James Sellars

Kelvin Stevenson Memorial Church
1898
62 Belmont Street
John J Stevenson

Langside Parish Church
1995
167 Ledard Road, Langside, Glasgow
Mike & Sue Thornley

OranMòr : former Kelvinside Parish Church
1862, 2004
731-735 Great Western Road
J J Stevenson
Oran Mor

Our Lady of Good Counsel RC Church
1964-65
6 Broompark Circus
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia Architects

Pollokshields Church of Scotland
1875
274 Albert Drive, corner of Albert Drive & Shields Road
Robert Baldie

Sandyford-Henderson Memorial Church
1856
13 Kelvinhaugh Street
J T Emmett, John Honeyman

St Anthony’s Church
1879
62 Langlands Road
John Honeyman

St Benedicts Church
1962-65
755 Westerhouse Road
Gillespie Kidd and Coia

St Bride’s Episcopal Church
1904, 1910
69 Hyndland Road
G F Bodley, H O Tarbolton

St Charles’ RC Church
1959
1 Kelvinside Gardens
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia

St Clare’s RC Church
1959
18 Drumlanirg Avenue
–

St John’s Renfield Parish Church
1931
Beaconsfield Road
James Taylor Thomson

St Mary’s RC Church
1841-42
89 Abercromby Street
Goldie & Childe of London

St Mungo’s Church
1869
Parson Street, Townhead
George Goldie

St Ninian’s Episcopal Church
1872-77, extended 1887
1 Albert Drive
David Thomson

Church of St Paul’s the Apostle
1957-59
1653 Shettleston Road
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia

Glasgow Cathedral
12-14thC
Cathedral Square, Glasgow
–

St Andrew’s Cathedral
1814-17
190 Clyde Street
James Gillespie Graham

Glasgow Synagogues
Garnethill Synagogue
1879
127 Hill Street
John McLeod

Giffnock and Newlands Synagogue
–
222 Fenwick Road, Glasgow
–

Glasgow Mosques
Glasgow Central Mosque
1984
1 Mosque Avenue, Gorbals, Glasgow
Coleman Ballantine

Glasgow Buddhism Centres
Glasgow Buddhist Centre : Friends of Western Buddhist Order
–
329 Sauchiehall Street, opposite Dental Hospital, Glasgow
–

Scotland’s Buddhist Vihara
–
2002 Maryhill Road
–

Orthodox Churches
Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Luke
1877
27 Dundonald Road
James Sellars

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