Queen's Park Govanhill Parish Church facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Queen's Park Govanhill |
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| Queen's Park Govanhill Parish Church | |
The church in 2017
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| 55°50′05″N 4°16′11″W / 55.834807°N 4.269656°W | |
| Location | Glasgow |
| Country | Scotland |
| Denomination | Church of Scotland |
| Website | Church Website |
| History | |
| Status | Active |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Parish church |
| Architect(s) | James Thompson |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Neo-Gothic |
| Years built | 1874-1875 |
| Groundbreaking | 28 February 1874 |
| Completed | 16 May 1875 |
| Specifications | |
| Number of spires | 1 |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Queen's Park Govanhill |
| Presbytery | Presbytery of Glasgow |
Queen's Park Govanhill Parish Church is a 19th century Parish church of the Church of Scotland located in the south-side of Glasgow, near Queen's park from which the church's name derives.
Foundation and Construction
The church was founded as the Queen's Park Free Church, as a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland. The congregation was formed in December 1866. The current church building was designed by James Thomson and was built between 1874 and 1875. The foundation stone was laid on February 28, 1874 by Patrick Playfair, Lord Dean of Guild, and the church building was completed in a little over a year. It was dedicated and opened for use on May 16, 1875. The church was built in the Neo-Gothic style, with a corner spire. The church halls were added in 1879.
Works of Art
The church has a galleried interior with two tiers of cast-iron columns and a barrel-vaulted roof. There are also a number of stained glass windows by Daniel Cottier, including some wall decoration which was uncovered and restored in 2008. An additional window was installed after WWII by Douglas Hamilton commemorating Jane Haining, a Church of Scotland missionary, who was arrested by the Gestapo in April 1944, and imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp, where she died in July 1944. The church also contains a number of war memorials of the various parish churches that once existed, but which merged with Queen's Park Govanhill Parish Church through the years. These include memorials of the parishes of Queen's Park West (present-day Queen's Park Govanhill), Strathbungo (converted into flats), Queen's Park High (converted into flats) and Crosshill Victoria (present-day Al-Farooq Education and Community Centre). The church was extensively renovated and restored between the late 1990s and 2006.
