Columba Church Hall, King Street West, Helensburgh is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1993. Church. 1 related planning application.
Columba Church Hall, King Street West, Helensburgh
- WRENN ID
- winter-transept-quill
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1993
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 296 825
- Coordinates
- 56.00535, -4.73348
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Columba Church Hall, built in 1845, is a Gothic-style building designed by probably William Spence. It has a rectangular plan and is constructed from cream and pink sandstone rubble, with cream sandstone ashlar on the south entrance elevation. The hall features pointed-arch windows and offset diagonal buttresses that have saw-tooth coping and gablet caps.
On the south elevation facing King Street West, there is a central gable bay with a Tudor-arch doorway that has deep splayed reveals, a modern door, and a blind three-light window above. Flanking this are half-gable bays with blind single windows.
The west elevation has four regular windows and a flat-roofed later block that abuts the center. The roof is made of grey slate, with ashlar coped skews, cast-iron rainwater goods, and a tall parapet on the south elevation.
Local climate
Columba Church Hall, King Street West, Helensburgh sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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