St Matthew's Blythswood, 246 Bath Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Church.

St Matthew's Blythswood, 246 Bath Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
north-pediment-starling
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 582 658
Coordinates
55.8653, -4.26689
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Matthew's Blythswood, located at 246 Bath Street in Glasgow, is a church designed by John T Emmet between 1849 and 1852 in the Early English Gothic style. The building features a nave and chancel with aisles and a clerestory, along with a northwest tower and spire. The design is symmetrical, although much of the detailing was removed in 1968, particularly from the steeple. The exterior is constructed of polished ashlar, with a graduated plinth that has roll moulding. There are ribbed doorways located to the west under the tower, in the porch to the northwest, and in the north bay facing Holland Street. The west wall is partly hidden by a later addition.

The steeple consists of a four-stage tower with plate-traceried belfry and a slim spire, although the pinnacles and lucarnes have been removed. The church features an east window with tracery that includes intersecting mullions, impaled trefoils, and elaborate shafts with capitals and bases. The aisle and clerestory windows have Y-tracery, with cusping, and are flanked by smaller west aisle windows. The building is supported by buttresses and has coped gables along with a fretted ridgepiece.

Inside, the nave arcade is adorned with clustered colonettes and recessed clerestory windows. The roof features an arched brace design with wall posts supported by cast angelic corbels over the spandrels, decorated with foliage at the east end. The stained glass in the east wall depicts the Apostles flanking Christ in Glory above the figures of Truth, Hope, Charity, Faith, and Justice, and is signed by Norman McDougall from 1905.

Local climate

St Matthew's Blythswood, 246 Bath Street, 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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