Drumchapel Old Parish Church, 143-153 Garscadden Road, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 July 1989. Church. 1 related planning application.
Drumchapel Old Parish Church, 143-153 Garscadden Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-pillar-tarn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow West MP: Patricia Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1989
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Drumchapel Old Parish Church, 143-153 Garscadden Road, Glasgow, G15 6UQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 522 706
- Coordinates
- 55.9063, -4.36436
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Drumchapel Old Parish Church, located at 143-153 Garscadden Road in Glasgow, was designed by Lancelot H Ross in 1937 and completed in 1940. This rectangular church features transepts, a gabled aisle to the west, and a church hall to the south. The exterior is harled with ashlar dressings.
The north gable includes a low gabled session room attached to it. The main gable has simple Venetian windows beneath a birdcage bellcote. There is a porch located in the re-entrant angle to the west, formed by the main body of the church and the west aisle.
The west aisle consists of three gabled bays. To the south, the transept features a five-light window and has a catslide roof. The low gabled hall range to the south includes five-light canted windows on the west side. The east elevation showcases three tall windows, with the transept detailed similarly to the west.
Local climate
Drumchapel Old Parish Church, 143-153 Garscadden Road, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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