St John The Evangelist Episcopal Church, Union Street, Greenock is a Grade B listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 May 1971. Church.

St John The Evangelist Episcopal Church, Union Street, Greenock

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 May 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 274 765
Coordinates
55.95112, -4.7653
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St John The Evangelist Episcopal Church, located on Union Street in Greenock, is a Gothic-style building designed by the architectural firm Paley & Austin from Lancaster, completed in 1877. The church features a four-bay nave supported by alternately octagonal and circular piers, a clerestory, and a king-post roof. It includes a chancel and a side chapel, as well as a southeast tower topped with a pyramid-shaped slate roof. The church is noted for its fine detailing throughout.

Local climate

St John The Evangelist Episcopal Church, Union Street, Greenock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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