St Mungo's R.C. Church, 58 Parson Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Church. 1 related planning application.

St Mungo's R.C. Church, 58 Parson Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
steep-gargoyle-plover
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North East MP: Maureen Burke (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 September 1989
Type
Church
Address
St Mungo's R.C. Church, 58 Parson Street, Glasgow, G4 0PX
OS grid reference
NS 600 658
Coordinates
55.86565, -4.23806
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Mungo's Roman Catholic Church, located at 58 Parson Street in Glasgow, was designed by George Goldie and built between 1841 and 1877. This Italianate Gothic church features a rectangular plan and is constructed from cream sandstone, which is squared and snecked, with an ashlar base, band and string courses, and dressings. The exterior showcases pointed openings.

On the southeast elevation, there is a gabled entrance bay at the center, which includes a tripartite narthex supported by red granite columns with foliate capitals. Above this, there are gabled finialled hoodmoulds that are intricately carved. The upper gable is offset and features an architraved pointed arch recessed panel, flanked by two cusped two-light windows that include quatrefoils, blind roundels, and a rose window at the apex. Additionally, there is a trefoil oculus at the top of the gable and a cross finial. To the right, an angle buttress is present, flanked by a tall single-storey bay that has a hoodmoulded pointed arch panel filled with a cusped two-light window and a decoratively carved roundel. At the southeast angle, there is a polygonal spirelet adorned with lancets on each face and a stone spire featuring carved fish-scale bands.

The tower is a squat, incomplete square structure that flanks the entrance gable to the west. It has angle buttresses and lancets beneath a stone-bracketed shallow piend roof. The side elevations include pointed arch clerestory windows with cusped two-light windows and circular oculi above. The church features square lead-pane glazing and is roofed with grey slates.

Inside, the church has an aisled nave that culminates in an apse.

Local climate

St Mungo's R.C. Church, 58 Parson Street, 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 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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