The former Lansdowne Parish Church on Great Western Road in Glasgow. Designed by John Honeyman, with sculptures by John Mossman, it was built in 1863.
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James Sellars' magnificent Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church on Observatory Road in the West End of Glasgow. Designed in a French Gothic style, it was inspired by the medieval Sainte Chapelle in Paris.
The imposing Romanesque Basilica style Church of the Sacred Heart on Dalmarnock Road in Glasgow. Designed by C.J. Menart, it was built in 1909.
The distinctive open crown spire of the 1898 Nathanial Stevenson Memorial Church and the Belmont Street Bridge rising above the River Kelvin in the West End of Glasgow.
Crosshill Queen's Patk Church on Queen's Drive on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed in a Gothic style with Franco-German influences by Campbell Douglas and Sellars, it was built in 1872.
Invented in the 1810s, the heavy coffin-shaped mortsafe was placed over the wooden coffin after interment and left there until the body had decomposed enough to no longer be suitable for dissection. The watchhouse would be occupied for the same period of time.
A cast iron mortsafe and stone watchhouse in the Cadder Parish Churchyard on the outskirts of Glasgow. These features were designed to thwart the body-snatchers of the early 1800s who would steal the recently buried to sell to local medical schools.
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Saint Augustine's Parish Church on Ashgill Road in Glasgow. Designed by Fairlie and Partners, and built in 1954, its one of two Spanish Ranch style church and presbytery in the city.
The interior of St Mungo's Church on Parson Street in Glasgow, which was designed by George Goldie and was built in 1841.
Spring sunlight streaming through a stained glass window on T.L. Watson's 1883 Hillhead Baptist Church in the West End of Glasgow. Currently abandoned and roofless, this B-listed Greek Revival style church is at great risk of bring lost.
The imposing and rather stunning Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church on Observatory Road in the West End of Glasgow. Designed in a French Gothic style by James Sellars, it was inspired by the medieval Sainte Chapelle in Paris.
I love this sculpture on the Church of Saint Jude's Congregation on Woodlands Road in Glasgow. Designed by John Burnet Senior, it was built in 1874. About half life-size, it's not a typical subject for an ecclesiastical decoration.
St David's Church on Boreland Drive in the Knightswood area of Glasgow. Built in 1938, it was designed by A. Gardiner.
Love this little dragon hidden in the stonework of Pollokshields Church on Albert Drive in Glasgow. This church was built in the Gothic style in 1878 and was designed by Robert Baldie.
Saint Mungo's church and retreat on Parson Street in the Townhead area of Glasgow. The church was built in 1841 and the retreat in 1890. The shadow is that of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's 1895 Martyr's School, and you can just make out the outline of one of its distinctive roof vents on the red sandstone of the retreat.
An ecclesiastical mask on St Mungo's Church on Parson Street in the Townhead area of Glasgow. The church was designed by George Goldie, and was originally built in 1841. I've always presumed it represents St Mungo, but I'm in no way certain about this. Whoever it is, he doesn't look like someone you'd want to get on the wrong side of.
The Italianate Gothic former Kelvinside Parish Church on the corner of Byres Road and Great Western Road in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by J.J. Stevenson, it was built in 1862. Since 2004, it's been home to Òran Mór, an arts and entertainment venue.
Love this rather wonderful character on the ruins of Cathcart Old Parish Church in Glasgow. The church was built in the 1830s and was replaced by a newer church nearby in the 1920s.
An Art Deco style sculpture of the burning bush on A. Gardiner's 1930s Saint David's Church in the Knightswood area of Glasgow. The lettering around the edge translates as 'And it was not consumed' and is the motto of the Church of Scotland. This is usually associated with a Saint Andrew's Cross, but here it's accompanied by four thistles instead.
The former Saint George's in the Field in the Woodside area of Glasgow. Designed by H and D Barclay in a Greek Temple style, it was built in 1885 and features a pediment sculpture of Christ distributing loaves and fishes by W.B. Rhind.
