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East Argyle Street, HELENSBURGH, G84 7PX

"Sancte Joseph, ora pro nobis". See Image for the whole building in context, and for further details.

The church (1911) was designed by the Belgian-born C J Menart. It is located on the corner of Lomond Street and East King Street. Another contributor's earlier photograph shows it from a different angle: Image See Image for a closer view of the details above the entrance.

The picture was taken from the point where this road branches off from Image Image is on the right.

This is believed to have been the site of the short-lived first railway station (c.1857-1863) on the line which today runs to Helensburgh Central station, before the line was extended to the current terminus. View west from George Street footbridge towards Helensburgh Central.

Former Park Church, built in 1862, which is Category B listed http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB34714.

Not far ahead is one end of a footbridge over the railway line; Lomond Street continues on the far side of that bridge. The large building near the centre of the picture was employed as a drill hall during the First World War, and is currently a TA centre. There was no building on that site when the first-edition OS map was surveyed in 1860. A long narrow building, captioned "drill hall", is marked on the second-edition map (revised c.1897). On the 1914 revision of the map, the building is much larger: it had been expanded to the south-west, and was almost square; this corresponds to its present-day appearance. Another contributor's article lists the various buildings that were used as drill halls during the First World War: http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/WW1-Great-War-Centenary---Drill-Halls

The steeple behind is the Park Church, a separate building.

EMU 334002 just to the east of Helensburgh Central station. The railway line here is a single track branch leading from the double track mainline at Craigendoran.

The building, which stands on the corner of Charlotte Street and East King Street, is by John Honeyman; the foundation stone was laid in 1862, and the church opened in 1863. The interior was remodelled (1887-88) by William Leiper, the changes including a new staircase. At one stage of its history, it was known as Park United Free Church. In Helensburgh Cemetery – http://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/8777 – there is a memorial to its minister Henry Norwell M.A. (1861-1904), who was born at Perth; the memorial was, according to its inscription, "erected by the congregation of Park United Free Church".