St Matthew's Roman Catholic Church, Kirkintilloch Road, Cadder is a Grade C listed building in the East Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 September 1994. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Matthew's Roman Catholic Church, Kirkintilloch Road, Cadder
- WRENN ID
- narrow-passage-auburn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- Mid Dunbartonshire MP: Susan Murray (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 September 1994
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St Matthew's Roman Catholic Church, Kirkintilloch Road, Cadder, G64 2LZ
- OS grid reference
- NS 610 703
- Coordinates
- 55.90598, -4.22385
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Matthew's Roman Catholic Church, built in 1950 by Gillespie, Kidd and Coia, is a plain rectangular structure made of red facing brick. It features low pitched concrete skews and skewputs, along with narrow rectangular windows. The church has gabled roofs that were being recovered at the time of listing. A projecting porch is located at the west end, and there is a short flat-roofed side aisle at the southeast. The nave has ten bay windows. In the southwest angle between the porch and the nave, there is a leaded awning, which has sculptured panels depicting the life of the patron saint created by Benno Schotz above and to one side. Additionally, there is a flat-roofed single-storey room in the northwest angle. The interior was not seen during the listing.
Local climate
St Matthew's Roman Catholic Church, Kirkintilloch Road, Cadder sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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