Presbytery, St Aloysius Church, 10 Hillkirk Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 October 1981.

Presbytery, St Aloysius Church, 10 Hillkirk Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
tattered-portal-martin
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North East MP: Maureen Burke (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 October 1981
OS grid reference
NS 606 678
Coordinates
55.88323, -4.23012
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, located at 6 Hillkirk Street in Springburn, Glasgow, was designed by J L Bruce of Bruce and Sturrock and built between 1881 and 1882. This Gothic-style church features a gabled west front with a porch on the north side and an original baptistry on the south side. The gable end has a low, partly blind arcade with triple lights above, flanked by niches. The roof is covered with slate and red ridge tiles, topped with cross finials, and includes north and south transepts.

Inside, the church has a nave, north and south aisles, and an apse with flanking chapels to the east, along with a deep organ gallery at the west. The narrow arched nave arcades are supported by clustered columns, and the triple-arched east end frames the apse, which features stenciled mouldings. The altar rail, altar, and reredos are elaborately carved in stone and marble, complete with a pinnacled canopy. The roof is wide and arch-braced, incorporating cusped skylights.

Adjacent to the church is the presbytery, built in 1880, which has three asymmetrical bays. It includes a central timber porch and an advanced bay to the left with tripartite windows, all featuring 4-centred arched heads. The presbytery is constructed of bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof with a red tile ridge.

Local climate

Presbytery, St Aloysius Church, 10 Hillkirk Street, 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 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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