South Parish Church, Main Street, Barrhead is a Grade B listed building in the East Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 June 1980. Church.

South Parish Church, Main Street, Barrhead

WRENN ID
old-barrel-thrush
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Renfrewshire
Constituency
East Renfrewshire MP: Blair McDougall (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 June 1980
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 502 589
Coordinates
55.80022, -4.38976
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

South Parish Church, located on Main Street in Barrhead, is a free church built in 1846. The church features an ashlar front with aisles and has original fan-headed glazing in square-headed openings. At the center, there is a distinctive triple window.

Local climate

South Parish Church, Main Street, Barrhead sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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