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Basic Site Details
| Name: | Coats Memorial Baptist Church |
| Town, district or village: | Paisley |
| City or county: | Renfrewshire |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Parish: | |
| Status: | A Listed |
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| Notes: | Competition assessed by James Sellars. Cost: £20,000. |
Alternative Names
| The following alternative names are associated with this building/design: | |||
| Name | Current name? | Notes | |
 | Coates Memorial Church | sometimes mistakenly referred to thus | |
| Coats Memorial Church | Yes | |
Building Type Classification
| The building is classified under the following categories: | |||
| Classification | Original classification? | Notes | |
| Church | ||
Street Addresses
| The following street addresses are associated with this building: | |||
| Address | Main entrance? | Notes | |
| High Street | Yes | |
Events
| The following date-based events are associated with this building: | ||||
| From | To | Event type | Notes | |
| 1885 | 1886 | Designs exhibited | |
| 1885 | Competition held | ||
| 1892 | Design exhibited | ||
| 1902 | New pulpit | ||
| 1902 | Design exhibited | Designs for pulpit and canopy | |
People
Design and Construction
| The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | ||||||
| Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | |
| Arthur Billing | Architect | 1885 | Competition design - unplaced | ||
| Charles Bell | Architect | 1885 | Competition design - unplaced | ||
| Henry Higgins | Architect | 1885 | Competition design - sent uninvited and not considered in detail | ||
| James Chalmers | Architect | 1885 | Competition design - sent uninvited and not considered in detail | ||
| John Hutchison | Architect | 1885 | Competition design - unplaced | ||
| John Pollard Seddon | Architect | 1885 | Competition design - unplaced | ||
| Thomas Lennox Watson | Architect | 1885 | Competition design - sent uninvited but placed before several of the invited designs | ||
| Hippolyte Jean Blanc | Architect | A | 1885 | c. 1899(?) | Won competition and secured job |
| (Sir) John James Burnet | Architect | B | 1885 | Competition design - unplaced | |
| John Burnet & Son | Architectural practice | B | 1885 | Competition design - unplaced | |
| John Burnet (senior) | Architect | B | 1885 | Competition design - unplaced | |
| Andrew Robb Scott | Architect | A | c. 1887 | c. 1890 | Details - as assistant to Hippolyte Jean Blanc |
| Larmont Douglas Penman | Architect | A | 1892 | 1893 | As assistant to Hippolyte Jean Blanc |
| Louis David Blanc | Architect | A | 1893 | c. 1898(?) | As apprentice to Hippolyte Jean Blanc |
| Hugh Dykes Simpson | Architect | A | c. 1898(?) | As assistant to Hippolyte Jean Blanc | |
| John Manuel (junior) | Architect | A | c. 1899 | As assistant to Hippolyte Jean Blanc, Blanc having won the competition | |
| Hippolyte Jean Blanc | Architect | E | 1902 | Design exhibited for pulpit and canopy | |
References
Bibliographic References
| The following books contain references to this building: | ||||||
| Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | |
| Academy Architecture | 1902 | part 1 | p57 (Design for pulpit and canopy) | ||
| Edinburgh International Exhibition | 1886 | Edinburgh International Exhibition | Hutchison design exhibited | ||
| Graves, Algernon | 1905 | The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of exhibitors and their works… | 1905-6 | London: Graves and Bell | 1892, no 1761 (Blanc); 1897, no 1597 (Burnet Son & Campbell) |
| Harper, Roger H | 1983 | Victorian Architectural Competitions: An Index to British and Irish Architectural Competitions… | London: Mansell Publishing | ||
| MacLehose, James | 1886 | Memoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow Men who have died during the last thirty years … | Glasgow: James MacLehose & Sons | Volume 1 | |
| RSA | 1886 | 854 & 1156 | |||
| RSA | 1902 | New pulpit | |||
| Walker, Frank Arneil | 1986 | South Clyde Estuary: An Illustrated Architectural Guide to Inverclyde and Renfrew | p16 | ||
Periodical References
| The following periodicals contain references to this building: | |||||
| Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | |
| Builder | Late 1885 | XLIX | pp 4, 49, 86, 113 & 188-9i | |
| Building News | 17 July 1885 | |||
Archive References
| The following archives hold material relating to this building: | ||||
| Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | |
| Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 39027 | |
| RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | Hippolyte Jean Blanc: F v13 p142 no844 (microfilm reel 11); Louis David Blanc: L v13 no 881; John Manuel: L v25 no2022; Larmont Douglas Penman: L v23 no1830; Hugh Dykes Simpson: L v20 no1587 | |
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