Lyle Kirk, Newark Street Building, (former Finnart St Paul's Church), Newark Street, Greenock is a Grade A listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 May 1971. Church. 5 related planning applications.
Lyle Kirk, Newark Street Building, (former Finnart St Paul's Church), Newark Street, Greenock
- WRENN ID
- keen-stair-elder
- Grade
- A
- 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 264 774
- Coordinates
- 55.95861, -4.78144
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lyle Kirk, located on Newark Street in Greenock, is a former church known as Finnart St Paul's Church. It was designed by architect Sir Robert Rowand Anderson and built in 1893. The building features a nave with windowless aisles and a chancel, but it does not have a tower. It is constructed from finely detailed late Gothic red squared rubble.
Local climate
Lyle Kirk, Newark Street Building, (former Finnart St Paul's Church), Newark 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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