Holy Cross Church And Presbytery, 109 Dixon Avenue, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 December 1989. Church.
Holy Cross Church And Presbytery, 109 Dixon Avenue, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- pitched-spandrel-violet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1989
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 587 624
- Coordinates
- 55.83446, -4.25763
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Holy Cross Church and Presbytery, located at 109 Dixon Avenue in Glasgow, was designed by Pugin and Pugin of Westminster and built between 1909 and 1911. This Romanesque church is situated on a corner site and features a basilican plan. It is constructed from bull-faced red ashlar with polished dressings and has narrow round-headed lights. The church has a lofty nave with a pair of doors on the south side, which is the liturgical west gable, tall lights, and a sculptured figure. The roofs are covered with slate.
Inside, the church includes round-arched aisle arcades and a shallow segmental-arched ceiling, along with elaborate stone carvings at the liturgical east end, primarily made of marble, including altars and other features.
The presbytery to the east is built in similar materials and is designed like a double villa, featuring outer bows. It has two storeys with attic dormers and sash windows. The entire property is enclosed by iron railings with intermittent bull-faced ashlar piers.
Local climate
Holy Cross Church And Presbytery, 109 Dixon Avenue, Glasgow 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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