Candlish And Polmadie Church And Hall, 513 Cathcart Road, Govanhill, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Church.

Candlish And Polmadie Church And Hall, 513 Cathcart Road, Govanhill, Glasgow

WRENN ID
fallow-glass-burdock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 587 627
Coordinates
55.83691, -4.25664
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Candlish and Polmadie Church and Hall, located at 513 Cathcart Road in Govanhill, Glasgow, was designed by John Honeyman and built between 1874 and 1877. This early English Gothic church features geometrical tracery and is situated on a corner site, with a tower at the corner topped by a tall pyramidal spire. The church has a gabled nave and tall side aisles, which have their roofs concealed by parapets. The buttressed bays are adorned with tall windows that feature tracery. The west entrance front, facing Cathcart Road, includes a gabled doorway and a wheel window in the gable. The exterior is constructed of snecked ashlar with polished dressings and has a slate roof. Inside, the church has galleries on three sides supported by cast-iron columns with foliated capitals.

The hall is set forward from the iron-railed flank of the church and has a curved wall on the left. It is two storeys high and features arcaded pointed openings. The hall also contains a session house and a church officer's house.

Local climate

Candlish And Polmadie Church And Hall, 513 Cathcart Road, Govanhill, 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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