Anderston Free Church, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Former church, campus building.

Anderston Free Church, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow

WRENN ID
lapsed-brick-thistle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Former church, campus building
OS grid reference
NS 571 666
Coordinates
55.87218, -4.28436
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Anderston Free Church, located at 9 University Avenue in Glasgow, was designed by James Sellars of Campbell Douglas & Sellars between 1876 and 1878. It features Normandy Gothic architecture and has undergone alterations by Keppie, Henderson & Partners from 1961 to 1963. In 1996-1997, it was converted into the Gilmorehill Centre by SBT Keppie. The church is constructed from stugged coursed ashlar with polished ashlar dressings.

The building includes a nave with low five-bay aisles. On the west side, there are five tall gabled three-light plate-tracery windows above the aisles, accompanied by small lancet windows in the aisles. The east side has four clerestory windows separated by flying buttresses, with the lower walls also heavily buttressed. To the south, there are single-storey halls that are at right angles to the main body of the church. A pointed arch doorpiece is located in the re-entrant angle. The truncated tower, which was never completed, rises to only two stages and features a pointed arch entrance with nook shafts, as well as two leaded glass windows at its base.

The roofs are covered with grey slate.

Inside, as of 1988, the interior has been much altered with few original fittings remaining. A five-arch arcade supported on piers separates the nave from the aisles, while the subsidiary halls have an open timber roof. The main hall has a false suspended ceiling.

Local climate

Anderston Free Church, 9 University Avenue, 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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