St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Shawhill Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 June 1992. Church. 1 related planning application.

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Shawhill Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
hollow-keep-coral
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South MP: Gordon McKee (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 June 1992
Type
Church
Address
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Shawhill Road, Glasgow, G43 1SY
OS grid reference
NS 564 615
Coordinates
55.82605, -4.29235
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, located on Shawhill Road in Glasgow, was designed by W Nicholson of Manchester and completed in 1865. This conventional Gothic church features a nave and aisles, with an incomplete square tower at the front of the south aisle that rises in three stages and is supported by angle buttresses. The church is constructed from cleaned snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and includes traceried windows on the west front, which also has a gallery-level window above the central door. Additionally, there is a south-facing doorway in the tower. The roofs are made of slate.

Local climate

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Shawhill Road, 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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