This Category A Listed
church in the Garnethill district of Glasgow
was built between 1908 and 1910, to a design
by the Belgian architect Charles Jean
Ménart. The Jesuit church was built in
the Neo-Baroque style and features a tall
campanile and a series of cupolas with
decorated interiors. The church's
website explains that, "... The
erection of the new church was completed
in some eighteen months and on
Quinquagesima Sunday, 6th February 1910,
the solemn opening of the church of St.
Aloysius Garnethill took place and the
parish, which had served the Garnethill
community for more than forty years, now
had one of the largest and most
beautiful church buildings in the city.
The church is built in the Renaissance
style of the seventeenth century, after
the Cathedral of Namur, Belgium. The
architect Ménart was
responsible for many fine buildings but
an architectural historian described St.
Aloysius thus: “His masterpiece, though,
is St Aloysius Church, Rose Street
(1908-10), whose slender, golden-domed
campanile rises above the church’s
heavily carved Baroque façade and
Byzantine dome, creating a prominent
landmark on the heights of Garnethill.”
