St Patricks R. C. Church, 101-121 William Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Church.

St Patricks R. C. Church, 101-121 William Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
long-copper-ivory
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 579 655
Coordinates
55.862, -4.2713
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, located at 101-121 William Street in Glasgow, was designed by P P Pugin and completed in 1898. This church features a Decorated Gothic style with a nave, aisles, an apsed chancel, and a baptistry. It is constructed from squared red sandstone and rock-faced rubble, with polished ashlar dressings.

The east front is tall and gabled, with a projecting semi-octagonal baptistry on the south side. There are two pointed arched entrances, each flanked by simple nook shafts and dedication crosses. The east window is tall and consists of seven lights, elaborately cusped with mouchette tracery, and includes a louvred gablehead opening and an apex finial. The nave has seven bays, small buttresses on the north side, and five-light clerestorey windows with lean-to confessionals on the south side.

Inside, there is an organ gallery at the east end, and the nave arcade features three wide arches with arch moulding that dies into circular piers. Engaged shafts rise from the springing of the arches and support a timber trussed roof. The church retains all original fittings, including seating, a marble altar rail with brass gates, an elaborate canopied marble reredos, some stencil work, and the chancel roof. There are also elaborately carved altarpieces in the side chapels and a simple baptistry. The stained glass in the east window was created by John Hardman studios in 1951.

Local climate

St Patricks R. C. Church, 101-121 William Street, 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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