Wellington Church
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| 55°52′21″N 4°17′13″W / 55.872528°N 4.287051°WCoordinates: 55°52′21″N 4°17′13″W / 55.872528°N 4.287051°W | |
| Location | 76 University Avenue, Glasgow |
| Country | Scotland |
| Denomination | Church of Scotland |
| Website | wc |
| History | |
| Founded | 1884 |
| Founder(s) | United Presbyterian Church of Scotland |
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| Status | Church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Category A |
| Designated | 6 July 1966 |
| Architect(s) | Thomas Lennox Watson |
| Style | Neoclassical |
| Groundbreaking | 1883 |
| Completed | 1884 |
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| Presbytery | Presbytery of Glasgow |
| Clergy | |
| Minister(s) | Reverend Dr David Sinclair |
Wellington Church is a congregation and parish church of the Church of Scotland, serving part of the Hillhead area of Glasgow, Scotland. The building is located on University Avenue, Glasgow, opposite the University of Glasgow.
The building was designed by the architect Thomas Lennox Watson and built between 1883 and 1884 for the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland ("U.P."), which joined with the Free Church of Scotland to become the United Free Church of Scotland in 1900.
The exterior of church is notable for its magnificent neoclassical portico, complete with a colonnade of Corinthian columns in the style of an ancient Graecian temple. This neoclassical architecture was much favoured by United Presbyterian Church, in contrast to the Gothic Revival favoured by most other churches in the Victorian era.
The church's congregation was originally founded in 1792 as an "Anti-Burgher" congregation, which in 1820 became part of the United Secession Church (and in turn U.P. from 1847).
In 1828, they opened their own church building in Wellington Street near the centre of Glasgow. The congregation had outgrown this by the 1880s, so the church commissioned a new building at the junction of Southpark Avenue and University Avenue on Gilmorehill, opposite the university which had moved from the city centre the previous decade. Given that the United Presbyterian Church had no parish boundaries it was not uncommon for U.P. congregations to relocate.
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