Sacred Heart Rc Church, Dalratho Road, Grangemouth is a Grade C listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 August 1978. Church.

Sacred Heart Rc Church, Dalratho Road, Grangemouth

WRENN ID
hollow-doorway-vetch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Falkirk
Constituency
Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 August 1978
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 929 816
Coordinates
56.01608, -3.71802
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, located on Dalratho Road in Grangemouth, was built in 1927 and designed by architect Archibald Macpherson in the Gothic Revival style. The church is constructed of snecked rubble and features a tiled roof. It has round-headed windows arranged in pairs and salient buttresses. At the west end, there is a five-sided open porch with a figure of Christ in a niche above it. The interior of the church is aisled, with internal walls and arcades made of brick. It boasts an open timber ceiling and a gallery at the west end, along with a sanctuary arch at the east.

Local climate

Sacred Heart Rc Church, Dalratho Road, Grangemouth sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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