St Mary's Church, Govan Cross, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 May 1987. Church. 1 related planning application.

St Mary's Church, Govan Cross, Glasgow

WRENN ID
waning-sandstone-tide
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 May 1987
Type
Church
Address
St Mary's Church, Govan Cross, Glasgow, G51 2YL
OS grid reference
NS 554 657
Coordinates
55.86296, -4.31059
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Mary's Church, located at Govan Cross in Glasgow, was designed by Robert Baldie and completed in 1873. The church features a Gothic facade with three gables made of snecked rubble. The wide central gable includes three pointed arched doorways, each with chevron panelled doors and geometrical tracery in the tympana above. Above these doors are three geometrical traceried two-light windows, which contain simple stained glass, along with a vesica and a cross finial. The facade is supported by two angle buttresses topped with pinnacles, and there are smaller flanking gables, each featuring two lancet windows and a quatrefoil. A Celtic cross finial adorns the south gable, while the north gable is missing its finial. The angle buttresses also have smaller pinnacles. The church has a slate roof and a small square-section louvred bell tower with a steep pyramidal roof and an iron finial.

The side elevations are constructed of rubble and include five tall geometric traceried windows with simple stained glass and an oculus. The rear of the church is also made of rubble and features a small rose window.

Inside, there is a horseshoe gallery supported by bell-capital cast-iron columns. The ceiling at the rear of the gallery is carried by four stiff leafed-capital iron columns. A prominent organ is situated behind a wooden pulpit. The flat ceiling is divided into panels by timber beams that spring from corbels decorated with dogtooth moulding.

Local climate

St Mary's Church, Govan Cross, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 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 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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