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Latitude: 55.8439 / 55°50'38"N
Longitude: -4.4244 / 4°25'27"W
OS Eastings: 248294
OS Northings: 663848
OS Grid: NS482638
Mapcode National: GBR 3K.4WV6
Mapcode Global: WH3P6.0CDT
Plus Code: 9C7QRHVG+H6
Entry Name: Low Church, New Street, Paisley
Listing Name: New Street, Paisley Arts Centre (Former Low Church)
Listing Date: 26 February 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384604
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39059
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Paisley, New Street, Low Church
ID on this website: 200384604
Location: Paisley
County: Renfrewshire
Town: Paisley
Electoral Ward: Paisley East and Central
Traditional County: Renfrewshire
Tagged with: Church building
James Baird and John Hart, Master Masons. 1736-8. External alterations and internal refurnishing 1873. Debased Gothic. Simple T-plan church. Rubble with ashlar dressings. All gables and gablets crowstepped. Symmetrical 3-bay south elevations with gabled projecting porch; pointed-arched door with blind oculus over 1 lancet in each side wall raised through eaves and gabletted. Porch flanked by inner Y-traceried window and outer lancet, all raised through eaves and gabletted. Gabled east and west elevations with large windows of intersecting tracery; door and 2 square headed windows in west elevation, blocked in east. North elevation with large projecting gabled wing.
Interior entirely modernised.
This former Low, or Laigh, Church is the second oldest church in Paisley after Paisley Abbey (see separate listing). Built in a simple Gothic style with crow-stepped gables, it retains its T-plan shape and profile. It is an important addition to the streetscape and to the ecclesiastical history of Paisley.
The Low Church was originally attached to the Church of Scotland, and became an Evangelical Church in the 1850s. It was converted to the Paisley Arts Centre in 1987.
List description updated as part of the Theatres Thematic Survey 2010.
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