485 St George's Road, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 July 1966. Church. 1 related planning application.
485 St George's Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- long-beam-furze
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- 485 St George's Road, Glasgow, G3 6JX
- OS grid reference
- NS 584 668
- Coordinates
- 55.8741, -4.26383
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
485 St George's Road in Glasgow is a Greek temple-fronted church built between 1885 and 1886 by H and D Barclay. The building features a striking ashlar facade with a bold Ionic hexastyle frontispiece raised on a podium, which dominates the wide gable end. The pediment is adorned with sculpture by William Birnie Rhind. Access to the podium is provided by steps that rise either from the sides or via a wide main flight. The portico includes inner pilasters and attached columns that flank a central door, which is tall and corniced. The main gable head displays Thomsonesque details.
On the southeast elevation, the wide end bays feature small flat-headed windows with modern sympathetic glazing, and there is Greek key decoration between the floors. The building has a main cornice and a low parapet, with roof lights incorporated into the slate roof. There are no original interior features remaining, as the church was converted into housing in 1988-1989.
Local climate
485 St George's Road, 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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