St Vincent Street Church

 

St. Vincent Street Church is a Presbyterian church on St. Vincent Street in Glasgow, Scotland. It was designed by Alexander Thomson (also known as "Greek" Thomson) and built from 1857 to 1859 for the former United Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

It is a Category A listed building and is owned by Glasgow City Council.

In 1998 the building was listed in the 1998 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund, and again in 2004 and 2006. The Fund helped restore the tower, with support from American Express.

In March 2026, the Alexander Thomson Society opened a public consultation about the future of the church. The group's plan is to reopen it as a mixed spiritual and secular space.

Sovereign House

 

Sovereign House at 158 West Regent Street in central Glasgow was designed by architect Robert Duncan and completed in 1893. Originally built as the Institute for Adult Deaf and Dumb, the building featured a distinctive mission and chapel complex that was beautifully converted into contemporary office spaces in 1989.

Finnieston Church

 Finnieston Church by James Sellars, one of his last Greek designs very much influenced by Alexander Thomson. Shame about the filled in pediment although it reduces pigeon perching places.

A beautiful church which has been sympathetically converted to flats. 

IBROX METHODIST CHURCH

Angus Kennedy, 1867-8, as UP church at 534 Paisley Road West.; additions (including transept and chancel) and alterations by Bruce and Hay, 1896. Gothic church with gabled front to street, tower left, with spire, on corner with Merrick Gardens. Ashlar. Tower has buttresses off-set at each stage (louvred belfry at top stage), pinnacles over angles, lucarned stone spire; door in main gable, large traceried window over; buttressed flank to Merrick Gardens, and tall gable left. Slate roofs.

It was converted into a climbing centre in 1994

Info courtesy of Historic environment Scotland .

The Old Govan Church and Stones

The Old Govan has a collection of medieval stones dating from the 9th to the 11th Century. It has a total of 31 monuments and 5 Viking hogback stones. The sarcophagus is probably the highlight of the exhibition.