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Hillington Park Church of Scotland, Cardonald, Glasgow


In 1908 a hall/church was opened by the United Free Church at Cardonald and known as Cardonald United Free Church. A new church was built adjacent in 1924/25. In 1929 at the union with the Church of Scotland it was renamed Hillington Park Church. A pipe orgn was installed by Abbott & Smith of Leeds. Just after 1988 chancel furniture from Newton Church, Port Glasgow was installed at Hillington. This furniture had been carved by Archibald C Dawson.

The church is aligned essentially east/west with the entrance porches to the south and north of the west gable. The roof is slated. 

The hall/church is in random coursed red picked sandstone with fair-faced dressings. Its west gable has a pointed arch window containing a group of five graded pointed arch trefoils and tracery. Modern windows have been instered in the trefoils. The entrance porch to the hall/church is to the north adjacent to the entrance porch to the later church. The entrance to the hall/church is simple slightly pointed and has a hood moulding with label-stops.

The entrances to the new church are pointed arches with hood mouldings, side and arch mouldings. They have pyramidal slated roofs hidden behinf solid parapets with blind round-lobed quatrefoil decoration. The west gable has a very large pointed arch window with a hood moulding and label stops. It contains three pointed trefoils with diamond leading and upper tracery. Above there is a blind lancet window. On eaither side are heavy buttressing ending in tall ornate octagonal pinnacles.

The north entrance porch has a gablet west front similar to that on the south but its north face is gabled and also has an entrance in similar style.

To the north is additional hall accommodation.

The sides of the church are relatively short and are rouchcast, as are the chancel, east halls and rear of hall/church.

The chancel is two storey with only a series opf narrow rectangular windows at ground floor level.

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    site_id : 5541

    Name : Hillington Park Church of Scotland, Cardonald, Glasgow

  • Street : 24 Berryknowes Road
  • Town : Cardonald
  • Island :
  • City : Glasgow
  • Postcode : G52 2UD
  • Parish : Glasgow
  • Local Authority : Glasgow City
  • Location
  • Easting : 253376
  • Northing : 663936
  • Dates
  • Record Created : 05/09/2023 17:41:32

    Record Modified : 13/09/2023 09:27:14

  • Name: Cardonald United Free Church
  • Date From: 1908
  • Name: Abbott & Smith of Leeds
  • Role: Pipe Organ
  • Dates: 1925 (post)
  • Name: Archibald C Dawson
  • Role: Wood Carver
  • Dates: 1988 (post)
  • Notes: Chancel furniture
  • Title: Hall/church built
  • Description:
  • Date From: 1908
  • Title: Church built adjacent
  • Description:
  • Date From: 1924
  • Date To: 1925
  • Title: Pipe organ installed
  • Description: Pipe Organ Makers: Abbott & Smith of Leeds
  • Date From: 1925 (post)
  • Title: Union with the Church of Scotland
  • Description:
  • Date From: 1929
  • Title: Chancel furniture from Newton Church, Port Gl
  • Description: Wood Carver: Archibald C Dawson
  • Date From: 1988 (post)
  • Bibliographies.

  • Original Bibliographies. May be out of date.
    • Name: The Fasti of the United Free Church of Scotland 1900-1929
    • Author: Rev John Alexander Lamb
    • Date: 1956
    • Notes: Oliver & Boyd
    • Name: Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae - 1929 -1954 - Vol IX
    • Author: John Alexander Lamb
    • Date: 1954
    • Notes: Oliver & Boyd
    • Name: Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae - 1955 -1975 - Vol X
    • Author: Donald Farquhar Macleod Macdonald
    • Date: 1976
    • Notes: St Andrew's Press
    • Name: Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae - 1976 -1999 - Vol XI
    • Author: Donald Farquhar Macleod Macdonald
    • Date: 2000
    • Notes: T & T Clark, Edinburgh
    • Name: Buildings of Scotland - Glasgow - Reprinted 2005 (Yale)
    • Author: Elizabeth Williamson, Anne Riches & Malcolm Higgs
    • Date: 1990
    • Notes: Penguin Books
    • Name: Villages of Glasgow Volume 1 (Reprinted 1996)
    • Author: Aileen Smart
    • Date: 1988
    • Notes: John Donald

  • Site Archives
    • Archive: Scottish Church Heritage Research Archive - Offline database - Notes: SCHR SharePoint Archive
    • Website:
    • Reference: 5541

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