Pollokshields Free Church West, 614-620 Shields Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Church. 17 related planning applications.
Pollokshields Free Church West, 614-620 Shields Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- eternal-beam-dust
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Pollokshields Free Church West, 614-620 Shields Road, Glasgow, G41 2RD
- OS grid reference
- NS 574 631
- Coordinates
- 55.8406, -4.27781
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Pollokshields Free Church West, located at 614-620 Shields Road in Glasgow, was designed by W G Rowan of McKissack and Rowan between 1875 and 1879. It was originally built as a Free Church and is now known as Pollokshields West Church. The building features a Thomsonesque Greek architectural style and is situated on a corner site. It has a tall square tower at the corner, which has mostly blank walls below a decorative top stage and an open-worked domed lantern above. The three elevations of the church include an Ionic portico raised above a podium, a design also favored by Thomson. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar with slate roofs and pediments adorned with anthemion finials. The shallow Doric portico facing Shields Road has a triple doorway. The square-ended chancel is not original and may date from 1923. The interior was remodeled in 1923 and features stained glass panels created by Alfred Webster and Nina Millar Davidson. Surrounding the church is a stone-built boundary wall with piers that display Egyptian-Greek ornamentation.
Local climate
Pollokshields Free Church West, 614-620 Shields Road, 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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 0.2°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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 17 applications
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