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Skelmorlie Parish Church

M064 Skelmorlie Parish Church

Address: Shore Road, Skelmorlie PA17 5DY
Date: 1892–5
Client: Trustees of Skelmorlie Parish Church
Authorship: Authorship category 2 (Mackintosh and Office) (Mackintosh and Office)

Colour photograph of wrought iron lamp at Skelmorlie Parish Church

1856
Opening of Chapel of Ease, forerunner of Skelmorlie Parish Church. 1
1858
Addition of transepts to S. end of chapel. 2
1892
5 January: Trustees and congregation decide to ask John Honeyman to provide ideas for extending or replacing the original building. 3
21 January: Note in John Honeyman & Keppie's office records: 'Gave Mr Rankin plan & elevation of proposed extension of [Skelmorlie Parish] Church, also perspective view of former sketch, & plan.' 4
22 March: John Honeyman spends whole day on site visit. 5
10 May: John Honeyman spends half day on site visit. 6
1893
25 February: Note in John Honeyman & Keppie's office records: 'Met Rev Lamont, Messrs Rankin, Scott & MacDonald at Skelmorlie [and] received instructions to have Church measured & obtain tenders.' 7
April: This date is written at top of job-book entry, but work does not appear to have proceeded until following year. 8
1894
20 February: Tenders accepted from major contractors 9
August: Masonry of S. end expected to be finished in September, after which old transepts will be taken down so that tower and N. end can be completed. Three of the aisle columns are in place. 10
1895
13 October: Church to be formally opened. 11
1896
27 March: Final payment to builder. 12
November: Payment to Hutcheson & Grant for 'benches & screenwork', and 'figures'. 13
1897
20 April: Payment to John Crawford for carving. 14
1899
28 September: Payments for pulpit. 15

Notes:

1: John Lamond, The Book of the Parish Church of Skelmorlie, Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons, 1895, p. 16.

2: John Lamond, The Book of the Parish Church of Skelmorlie, Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons, 1895, p. 17.

3: Edinburgh, National Archives of Scotland: CH2/328/1, cited in Aonghus MacKechnie, 'C. R. M. on Clydeside?', Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society Newsletter, 33, Autumn 1982.

4: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie visit book, GLAHA 53060, p. 21.

5: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie visit book, GLAHA 53060, p. 21.

6: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie visit book, GLAHA 53060, p. 21.

7: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie visit book, GLAHA 53060, p. 32.

8: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie job book, GLAHA 53059, p. 214.

9: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie job book, GLAHA 53059, pp. 214, 216.

10: Glasgow Herald, 9 August 1894, p. 9.

11: Glasgow Herald, 11 October 1895, p. 10.

12: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie job book, GLAHA 53059, p. 215.

13: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie job book, GLAHA 53059, p. 215.

14: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie job book, GLAHA 53059, p. 217.

15: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie / Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53061, p. 162.