St Benedict's R.C. Church And Presbytery, 755 Westerhouse Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 September 1994. Church, presbytery.

St Benedict's R.C. Church And Presbytery, 755 Westerhouse Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
seventh-passage-plum
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North East MP: Maureen Burke (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 September 1994
Type
Church, presbytery
OS grid reference
NS 675 660
Coordinates
55.86957, -4.1189
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Benedict's Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery, located at 755 Westerhouse Road in Glasgow, was built in 1965 by the architectural firm Gillespie, Kidd and Coia.

The church, numbered 753, has a rectangular shape with dark grey rendering on brick, which was originally a lighter color. It features copper monopitch roofs that are connected by strips of glazing, with the wallheads rising above the roofline. The front elevation includes a flush porch on the left with strip glazing above it and a cross offset to the right, situated under a catslide from the lower pitch of the main roof. To the left of the porch is a baptistry with a raised monopitch roof and a small angle pane window at the top left. On the right, there is the Lady Chapel, which has a raised monopitch roof that is higher than that of the baptistry. The right side also has narrow strip glazing at the ground level and a single-pane window further to the right. The glazing strip between the main roof pitches is notably irregular. The side walls reflect the roof pitches and feature closely spaced slender buttress strips. The interior was not seen in 1991.

The presbytery, numbered 755, is located to the southeast of the church and is designed in a similar style, although it has a lower and narrower roof. The front elevation includes timber-framed strip glazing between the roof pitches and below the eaves, with some panes arranged in a strip above the lower windows (1 + 2 + 2 from the left). There are small single-pane windows in the side elevations, while the rear elevation was not seen.

Local climate

St Benedict's R.C. Church And Presbytery, 755 Westerhouse Road, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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