page_title: Hillhead Baptist Church
section_title: Building features
hierarchical_section_title: Hillhead Baptist Church / Building features
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque within Hillhead Baptist Church commemorating it's inaugural minister, Frederick Hall Robarts (1835-1901), who was Minister from 1883-1901.
context_page_description: Hillhead Baptist Church is a Baptist church in the west end of Glasgow, Scotland. It was admitted to the Baptist Union of Scotland in 1883, when the church opened. It has operated for over 125 years, one of 164 active Baptist churches in Scotland in the early twenty-first century.
  External features of the church building include prominent Greek columns, casement windows, and a triple-doorway front access, with doors, by tradition, painted sky blue. Internal features include a columned gallery and two levels of seating. It was designed by Thomas Lennox Watson, of Glasgow, the sixth of a dozen churches built to Lennox Watson design during the era.
  Historic Scotland designated Hillhead Baptist Church a Category B preserved building in 1970.
context_section_description: The church interior contains three memorial stones recognising some past ministers. They are: Frederick Hall Robarts (1835–1901), the inaugural Minister 1883–1901, John Thomas Forbes (1858–1936), Minister from 1901–28, seven as Minister Emeritus, and Robert Guy Ramsay (1895–1976), Minister 1944–1960 and Minister Emeritus 1962–1976.
  A plaque at the entrance to the church, erected in 1933, commemorates the founding role of five parishioners in 1883: The inscription reads:
  "In grateful remembrance of those to whom this church is indebted for its formation:
  
  John Alexander
  
  Allan MacDiarmid
  
  Alexander Rose
  
  Charles A Rose
  
  William Tulloch"
  Either side of the founding parishioners plaque are commemorations of Hillhead Baptist Church congregations who died in the 1914–18 and 1939-45 wars. Totally 32 parishioners died in the 1914-18 war, one of whom, Captain Watson T Dick received the Military Cross, and 6 died in the Second World War.
  The north facing church interior features a raised gallery for the congregation illuminated by three large windows. The ceiling features ornate cornicing and circular patterns, which like the church's front doors, are decorated in blue.
caption: Plaque commemorating Hillhead Baptist Church's inaugural minister, Frederick Hall Robarts (1835–1901). The Rev Hall Robarts was the church's minister from 1883, its foundation, until 1901, his death
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