Chapel, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, 1055 Great Western Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Chapel.

Chapel, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, 1055 Great Western Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
hidden-brass-clover
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow West MP: Patricia Ferguson (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Chapel
OS grid reference
NS 551 680
Coordinates
55.88392, -4.31692
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The chapel at Gartnavel Royal Hospital, located at 1055 Great Western Road in Glasgow, was designed by architect J J Burnet in 1904 and is built in the Arts and Crafts style. It is oriented north-south and constructed of rendered brick with an exposed base course, voussoirs, and a brick north gable. The building features a six-bay nave and a four-bay west aisle, with a projecting porch on the southwest. The north side has a pair of lancet windows, while the south gable has three lancets. The remaining windows are bipartite and set under deep eaves, topped with swept slate roofs.

Inside, the chapel has dark stained timber dado panelling and a ribbed ceiling with a four-centred arch. The nave is separated from the aisle by a four-arch arcade. The south gable contains three stained glass lancets, and the north gable features two windows created by Guthrie and Wells around 1905. Both the nave and aisles have small lozenge-shaped leaded panes. There is also a memorial plaque to B Yellowlees made of bronze and marble, which has been relocated from the old dining hall.

Local climate

Chapel, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, 1055 Great Western Road, 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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