Methodist Church, Bell Street, Airdrie is a Grade B listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1979. Church.
Methodist Church, Bell Street, Airdrie
- WRENN ID
- over-tower-vetch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Airdrie and Shotts MP: Kenneth Stevenson (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1979
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 758 655
- Coordinates
- 55.86666, -3.98505
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Methodist Church on Bell Street in Airdrie was built in 1841. It is a plain, gabled Gothic church with a rectangular plan and three bays. The exterior features full-height, pinnacled, engaged columns that frame the central entrance bay. The church is constructed from plastered, squared sandstone rubble and has a base course. It includes tall stone-mullioned and transomed bipartite windows with traceried pointed arches. The gable ends have gablet-coped skews and corbelled skewputts.
On the southwest elevation, which is the principal facade, there are three bays with stopped hoodmoulds above the openings. The central entrance door is flanked by tall windows, and there is a window in the gablehead above the door. A continuous cill course runs along the base of the windows, and a date stone is set into the apex of the gable. The engaged cluster columns on either side terminate in pinnacles that break the eaves, and there is a blocked parapet between these pinnacles. A short column at the apex of the gable supports a stone cross finial. The tall flanking windows enhance the overall verticality of the design.
The northeast elevation features paired windows and an urn finial at the apex of the gable. The southeast side elevation has three bays with regular fenestration, while the northwest side elevation mirrors the southeast but has a blocked door in the outer right bay.
The church has diamond-pane leaded glass windows and is roofed with grey slates and lead flashing. Inside, the church is a whitewashed plain gabled box.
Local climate
Methodist Church, Bell Street, Airdrie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% 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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