St Alphonsus' Roman Catholic Church, 217 London Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1993. Church and presbytery. 1 related planning application.
St Alphonsus' Roman Catholic Church, 217 London Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- quartered-rafter-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1993
- Type
- Church and presbytery
- Address
- St Alphonsus' Roman Catholic Church, 217 London Road, Glasgow, G40 1PE
- OS grid reference
- NS 600 645
- Coordinates
- 55.85409, -4.23758
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Alphonsus' Roman Catholic Church, located at 217 London Road in Glasgow, was designed by Peter Paul Pugin of Pugin and Pugin and completed in 1905. This large Gothic church is constructed from rock-faced red ashlar and follows a variant of a standard design used in West-Central Scotland. The church features a gable facing the street, with a low porch and three tall traceried windows above, along with a circular gable window. The asymmetrical flanking transepts, which are two stories high, front the side aisles and display Gothic detailing. The main roof is steeply pitched and covered with slate, accented by red ridging tiles. Inside, the church has a plain open timber roof and aisle arcades supported by granite piers, along with a pinnacled reredos.
At the rear of the church, facing Stevenson Street, is the presbytery, which has a datestone from 1902. This three-story building is also designed by Pugin and constructed from rock-faced red ashlar, featuring simplified Gothic detailing. It has an asymmetrical façade with regular bays, an oriel window to the right, and a wall-head gable.
Local climate
St Alphonsus' Roman Catholic Church, 217 London 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 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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