St David's Parish Church, 66 Boreland Drive is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 April 1996. Church. 1 related planning application.

St David's Parish Church, 66 Boreland Drive

WRENN ID
plain-lantern-vetch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow West MP: Patricia Ferguson (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 April 1996
Type
Church
Address
St David's Parish Church, 66 Boreland Drive, G13 3DG
OS grid reference
NS 528 689
Coordinates
55.89116, -4.35527
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St David's Parish Church, built between 1938 and 1939 by A Gardiner and Gardiner-McLean, is a cruciform church featuring an entrance tower. The structure is made of brick with reconstituted stone dressings, cills, and lintels, which include a quasi-keystone detail.

On the southwest elevation, the entrance tower is two stages high and centrally located, featuring a broad doorway that is highlighted by a square carved panel above it, depicting the burning bush. This doorway is flanked by triangular brick shafts, and there is a tall narrow window above, set below a gabled wallhead. The roof is steeply pitched, covered with lead, and has a cross at the top. The return elevations have small windows at ground level and tall, slit windows above. Lean-to bays of the nave flank the tower, each with tall narrow windows. There are narrow bays of single-storey aisles that clasp the nave, slightly advanced on either side, featuring recessed glazed brick-wide crosses.

The northwest and southeast elevations showcase broad and tall transepts with piend roofs that are advanced to the rear. Each transept has three stepped narrow windows at the center and comparatively broad windows on the return to Boreland Drive. There are three bays of the nave flanking each transept, with each bay being single-storey and having a narrow window and a gablehead above. The clerestorey windows behind are tripartite with timber mullions and similar gableheads.

At the southeast rear, there is a lean-to vestry entrance adjacent to an earlier church hall. The church features small-pane timber glazing, with some replacements and some retaining chevron grooved glass. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are square downpipes.

Inside, there are wrought-iron hoop railings along Boreland Drive, supported by brick piers that terminate at the pedestrian gates.

Local climate

St David's Parish Church, 66 Boreland Drive 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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