Church Hall, Camphill Queen's Park Church, 20 Balvicar Drive, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. 1 related planning application.
Church Hall, Camphill Queen's Park Church, 20 Balvicar Drive, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- vacant-forge-pigeon
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow South MP: Gordon McKee (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Address
- Church Hall, Camphill Queen's Park Church, 20 Balvicar Drive, Glasgow, G42 8QS
- OS grid reference
- NS 578 624
- Coordinates
- 55.8339, -4.27121
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Camphill Queen's Park Church, located at 20 Balvicar Drive in Glasgow, was designed by William Leiper and constructed between 1875 and 1878, with the soaring stone spire completed in 1883. Originally known as Camphill United Presbyterian Church, it is situated on a corner site and was built adjacent to a hall from 1873, the architect of which is unknown.
The church showcases a Normandy Gothic style, featuring impressive sculptural details primarily executed by MacCulloch and Co of London. The building is constructed of snecked ashlar with polished dressings and has slate roofs. The tower, positioned at the corner, has massive buttressed lower stages, a tall offset and open belfry stage, and an octagonal stone spire. The main gabled front faces Balvicar Drive and includes buttresses, a recessed door in a gabled porch with nook-shafts, and a pair of tall traceried windows above, along with a winged figure by Mossman, all set within a large shallow arch. There are simpler doorways on either side, with the one to the right located in the tower. The church also features a twin-gabled shallow wide transept facing Balvicar Street.
Inside, the church has a galleried interior with stone columns that have decorative capitals. An extensive original stencilling scheme by Leiper remains on the high timber-vaulted roof, although the walls have been whitewashed. A notable feature is a 3-light leaded window. The interior also includes pointed aisle arcades, stone columns with foliated capitals, a large decorative pulpit with a canopy, and an organ set on the gallery.
The hall has a gable facing Balvicar Drive and its south flank is oriented towards Queen's Park.
Local climate
Church Hall, Camphill Queen's Park Church, 20 Balvicar 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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