From Glasgow Live – “[We] were left completely blown away by the sheer magnificence of the Gillespie, Kidd & Coia church, which was built between 1957 and 1964.
Claims it was “affectionately nicknamed ‘Fort Apache’ by the workies who built it” – which I have never heard before.
Quotes the Guardian article from 2019 which calls it “an architectural and spiritual outlier, a brooding, brutalist box, with thick brick walls, which aped the heft of medieval Caledonian castles”.
Compares it, strangely, to the Bhutanese prison Christian Bale’s Batman heads to in Batman Begins, but perhaps they are referring to the Pit in a Dark Knight Rises – similar brick work, at any rate: