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Former St John's Church, School Wynd, Paisley

A Category B Listed Building in Paisley, Renfrewshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.846 / 55°50'45"N

Longitude: -4.4255 / 4°25'31"W

OS Eastings: 248234

OS Northings: 664084

OS Grid: NS482640

Mapcode National: GBR 3K.4P1T

Mapcode Global: WH3P5.ZBS6

Plus Code: 9C7QRHWF+CQ

Entry Name: Former St John's Church, School Wynd, Paisley

Listing Name: School Wynd St John's Church (C of S)

Listing Date: 27 March 1985

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384660

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39112

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200384660

Location: Paisley

County: Renfrewshire

Town: Paisley

Electoral Ward: Paisley East and Central

Traditional County: Renfrewshire

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Description

James Salmon and Son architects. 1862-3. 2nd pointed Gothic;
rectangular plan with semi-octagonal apse. Snecked rubble
with ashlar dressings. Gabled front with bold inner
buttresses, capped by octagonal turrets with pierced
ornament, and spirelets, ard angle buttresses capped by
pyramidal pinnacles. Central door of 3-order pointed arch,
2 with nook shafts and stiff-leaf capitals. 5-light
window with plate tracery over. Lancets with plate tracery
to aisles. 6-bay sides divided by buttresess. Lancets as
front to bays nearest front, with door below on left side,
2-light window with quatrefoil to 5 remaining bays.
Parapet pierced by quatrefoils. End buttresses pinnacled.
Taller apse with lancets to 3 full facets and pierced
parapet. Slate roof with bands in fish-scale pattern.
Interior has galleries to 3 sides with colonettes to ground.
Organ in apse. Hammerbeam roof.

Statement of Interest

Eccleciastical building in use as such.

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