Trinity Congregational Church, 71-73 Claremont Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Church. 1 related planning application.

Trinity Congregational Church, 71-73 Claremont Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
eternal-remnant-pigeon
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Church
Address
Trinity Congregational Church, 71-73 Claremont Street, Glasgow, G3 7JB
OS grid reference
NS 573 659
Coordinates
55.86518, -4.28056
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Trinity Congregational Church, located at 71-73 Claremont Street in Glasgow, was designed by John Honeyman in 1864 and showcases a late decorated gothic style. The church features a nave, chancel, and transept, along with a southeast tower and spire. The exterior is constructed of coursed ashlar stone with a squared rubble rear elevation and a raked plinth.

The elevation facing Claremont Street includes an arched entry at the top of a short flight of steps, ribbed and supported by colonettes. It has two 2-light windows adorned with curvilinear tracery. There is a porch and a polygonal turret at the re-entrant angle of the nave and transept, as well as three hoodmoulded loopholes and a carved cornice. The roof is a pepper pot design with geometric slate. The double gable transept features diagonally buttressed overlapping cope and two 3-light arched windows with curvilinear tracery.

On the north return, there is a plain liturgical east window in the shape of a vesica. The elevation facing Berkeley Street has a single gable with two 2-light hoodmoulded windows and two buttresses topped with curved decoration. A rose window and a 5-bay blind arcade can be found below the southwest gable. There is a modern addition to the west.

The tower and spire consist of a three-stage tower with angle buttresses. The second stage features coupled loops that break through a continuous hoodmould. The bellcote stage is bipartite and includes tracery, while the broached ashlar spire has shallow lucarnes and clasping pinnacles.

Inside, the church has partially altered arcaded transept screens with carved colonettes, a west gallery on the south side, and a pierced hammerbeam roof. The east window contains stained glass.

Local climate

Trinity Congregational Church, 71-73 Claremont 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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