Hall, 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, shops, house. 7 related planning applications.

Hall, St Mary's Church, Govan Cross, Glasgow

WRENN ID
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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, shops, house
OS grid reference
NS 554 656
Coordinates
55.86274, -4.3111
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Mary's Church Hall in Govan Cross, Glasgow, designed by Robert Baldie in 1873, is a two-storey building constructed of snecked rubble in a Gothic style. It contains shops on the ground floor beneath the church hall and a church officer's house. The ground floor facing Govan Road is hidden behind modern cladding, but a Gothic door remains visible on Greenwell Street. The house at the west end features a first floor and attic with a gusset design. The first floor has sash windows set under false pointed arches adorned with trefoils. The cornice is interrupted by three segmental arched dormer windows topped with fleur de lis finials, and there is an oculus in the dormer at the top of the gusset. The building has one ridge and two wallhead stacks and is topped with a slate roof.

The hall itself has three pairs of three lancet windows facing Govan Road, which are linked by a continuous hoodmould. The east elevation is a blank rubble wall. The interior is plain.

Behind the hall, there is a two-storey extension made of rubble and brick, along with a square stone tower featuring an eaves cornice and a large wooden belfry. This tower replaced the original 150-foot spire.

Local climate

Hall, 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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