The Merchant city has seen a resurrection in recent years, with old buildings being converted into flats, pubs and other commercial premises.
The former John Street Church is now a pub/ diner, which regularly re-invents itself with a new name. It is currently known as John Street Jam.
It was built in 1860 by David Hamilton's former chief draughtsman, J. T. Rochead. By coincidence his other building in the same area, the Bank of Scotland at the corner of George Square and St Vincent Place, has also been converted into a public house, the Counting House.
John Street Church was originally built for a congregation of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, but it is by no means typical of the ecclesiastical architecture of Glasgow! The huge Ionic columns and the glazed areas between them dominate its neo-classical design.
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