St Margaret's Church, 1996 Great Western Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Church.

St Margaret's Church, 1996 Great Western Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
first-chapel-rook
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow West MP: Patricia Ferguson (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 536 693
Coordinates
55.89532, -4.34175
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Margaret's Church, located at 1996 Great Western Road in Glasgow, was designed by J F Matthew in 1931 and is an addition to the hall built in 1925 by Jeffrey Waddell. The church features a round-arched design with Gothic detailing, a nave tower, and transeptal side chapels, constructed from snecked rubble and supported by buttresses.

The tall saddle-back east tower, which serves as the liturgical west entrance, has gabletted crow-stepped gables and apex pediments. The entrance on the south face has a shaped lintel, while the east side features narrow loophole windows and a tall continuous round-arched panel above a louvred bellcote at the upper part.

On the south elevation, there are four regular simple round-arched narrow windows, flanked by short parapet sections that include two and three-light windows, as well as an oval window that lights the chancel. The west elevation, which is the liturgical east side, has a narrow window and an oculus in the gable, along with simply-detailed attached halls in an L-plan. The north elevation features a semi-engaged turret with a pepper-pot roof to the east and three transeptal chapels.

Inside, the church has rock-faced snecked rubble walls. The north arcade is elliptically arched and includes a west gallery with a carved timber front. The timber chancel fittings, furniture, pulpit, and lectern are notable features, along with a marble font. The chancel windows on the south and east (west) walls are adorned with three-light stained glass created by Alexander Russell from Dundee.

Local climate

St Margaret's Church, 1996 Great Western Road, 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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