Stockwell Free Church, 149-153 Albert Drive, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1984. Church.
Stockwell Free Church, 149-153 Albert Drive, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- second-floor-hemlock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1984
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 578 632
- Coordinates
- 55.84152, -4.27154
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Stockwell Free Church, located at 149-153 Albert Drive in Glasgow, was designed by John B Wilson and built between 1886 and 1887 in the Free Italian Renaissance style. The church is constructed of yellow ashlar and features a prominent campanile with angle buttresses. The belfry stage has tall, paired round-arched openings, and above it is an octagonal section with pilastered angles and a facetted dome.
The church has a full-height canted elevation facing Albert Street, which includes columned and pedimented doorways on the outer faces. The angles of the building are highlighted by elaborate Corinthian columns that frame bipartite windows with deeply recessed round-arched heads, each containing sculptured panels above the main entablature. The roof is adorned with a decorative ventilator and a parapet. The side elevation consists of three bays with tripartite windows at the gallery level.
Inside, the narthex features a coved ceiling and a mosaic floor. The main body of the church has a panelled gallery with a very deep section opposite the altar, which is set into a canted projection. Decorative tie beams are present, along with modern fittings throughout the interior.
Local climate
Stockwell Free Church, 149-153 Albert Drive, 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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