Global InformationHillhead Baptist Church information
| Hillhead Baptist Church | |
|---|---|
 Hillhead Baptist Church, Glasgow, Scotland | |
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| Location | Glasgow |
| Country | Scotland |
| Denomination | Baptist |
| Associations | Baptist Union of Scotland |
| History | |
| Founded | 19th century |
| Consecrated | 1883 |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | In use |
| Architect(s) | Thomas Lennox Watson |
| Architectural type | Greek columns with casement windows and triple-doorway front access |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 600 |
Hillhead Baptist Church is a Baptist church in the west end of Glasgow, Scotland. It is affiliated with the Baptist Union of Scotland.[1][2] It has operated for over 125 years, one of 164 active Baptist churches in Scotland in the early twenty-first century.[3][4][5][6]
External features of the church building include prominent Greek columns, casement windows, and a triple-doorway front access, with doors, by tradition, painted sky blue. Internal features include a columned gallery and two levels of seating. It was designed by Thomas Lennox Watson (1850–1920), of Glasgow, the sixth of a dozen churches[7] built to Lennox Watson design during the era.[8][9][10]
Historic Scotland designated Hillhead Baptist Church a Category B preserved building in 1970 (building number LB32860[11]).
- ^ Yuille, George (1926). History of the Baptists in Scotland (PDF). The Baptist Standard Bearer, Inc. p. 179. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2016.
A few members of Adelaide Place Church, residing in the neighbourhood of Hillhead, had felt for some time the desirability of founding a Baptist Church in that district. The population was rapidly increasing, and the distance to the nearest Baptist Church considerable.
- ^ Roxburgh, Kenneth (1999). Open and Closed Membership Among Scottish Baptists (Series 171 ("Baptism, the New Testament and the Church: Historical and Contemporary Studies in Honour of R.E.O White, Eds: Stanley E Porter & Anthony R Cross ed.). Sheffield Academic Press. p. 440. ISBN 1-85075-937-5.
From 1840, the Hillhead area of Glasgow experienced significant growth, and by 1869 the burgh had a population of over 3500. In 1870 the University of Glasgow relocated its premises in the area, and in 1883 nine members of the Adelaide Place Baptist Church expressed their desire to establish a new Baptist congregation in the Hillhead area.
- ^ "Glasgow, 41 Cresswell Street, Hillhead Baptist Church And Church Hall". Scotland's Urban Past. Archived from the original on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ^ "Places of worship in Glasgow - Hillhead Baptist Church". Glasgow City Council. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ^ "Church Directory - Hillhead Baptist Church". Origin Scotland. Archived from the original on 19 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ^ "Scottish Churches - Hillside Baptist Church". Scottish Churches. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018.
- ^ "Thomas Lennox Watson". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Archived from the original on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
Ed note: Twelve churches designed by Lennox Watson are Adelaide Place Baptist Church, Glasgow (1875), John Knox Street Church, Glasgow (1875), North Presbyterian Church, Perth, Scotland (1878), Greenfield Presbyterian Church, Glasgow (1881), St John's Wesleyan Methodist Church, Glasgow (1882), Hillhead Baptist Church, Glasgow (1883), Crieff Presbyterian Church, Perthshire (1883), Wellington Presbyterian Church, Glasgow (1883), Coats Memorial baptist Church, Paisley (1885), Bristol Baptist Church (1886), Church of St Peter, Drogheda, Eire (1892), Giffnock Estate Church, Renfrewshire (1916).
- ^ "Scottish architect Thomas Lennox Watson (Hillhead Baptist Church)". Glasgow Sculpture. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016.
Returning to Glasgow, c. 1875, he [Thomas Lennox Watson] proved his skill in Classical design with Adelaide Place Baptist Church, Pitt Street (1875-7), Hillhead Baptist Church, Creswell Street (1883) and Wellington Church, University Avenue (1882-4)
- ^ "Hillhead Baptist Church". Scottish Cities. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
Hillhead Baptist Church in Cresswell Street was built in 1883, although it looks much earlier in style. It was designed by Thomas. L. Watson, a Glasgow architect who favoured the Greek form of church building.
- ^ "Scottish architect Thomas Lennox Watson". Scottish Architects. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016.
He came into prominence very early, securing the commissions for the free classical Adelaide Place Baptist Church, Glasgow (1875-6) and for the Gothic Kilmacolm Hydropathic (1878) ... He was admitted FRIBA on 9 June 1884, his proposers being John Honeyman, Alfred Waterhouse and Arthur Cates.
- ^ "Hillhead Baptist Church at Historic Scotland". Historic Scotland. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016.
[Hillhead Baptist Church features...] Greek revival. 2-storey church with attached single storey hall and lower 3-storey caretaker's house. Polished ashlar, snecked rubble rear and return elevations. Casement windows with glazing bars…. [and intertior]... columned gallery with panelled front. Pilastered upper walls, apsidal (liturgical) E end with pedimented aedicule framing organ case. Compartmented, coffered ceiling. Anta pilastered hall with compartmented ceiling and circular roof lights.