St Patrick's Church, Main Street, Coatbridge is a Grade B listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1996. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Patrick's Church, Main Street, Coatbridge
- WRENN ID
- mired-landing-briar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Coatbridge and Bellshill MP: Frank McNally (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1996
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St Patrick's Church, Main Street, Coatbridge, ML5 3HB
- OS grid reference
- NS 733 651
- Coordinates
- 55.86261, -4.02545
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
A Gothic style church designed by Peter Paul Pugin and Cuthbert Welby Pugin and built in 1896, situated on a high basement on falling ground in Coatbridge. The church is constructed of bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings, and has a grey slate roof with decorative ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. The building features a pentice-roofed aisle, a baptistery, a sacristy, and a canted apse.
The front elevation is approached by a wide flight of steps, with a gabled bay at the centre featuring buttressed angles and a three-light window on the ground floor. Pointed-arch porches with pentice roofs flank the ground floor window, and three stepped windows are located at gallery level, with a smaller window above. The left aisle demonstrates two-light windows and a canted baptistery projecting from the aisle, featuring five windows and a parapet.
The right return elevation displays an eight-bay aisle with two two-light windows, five four-light windows and one three-light window, alongside six pilastered bays to the clerestory, each with paired two-light windows. The left return elevation features five single windows to the aisle, with three bays recessed and incorporating a four-light and a two-light window. A door is positioned on the far right, accompanied by a two-light window above. Clerestory windows mirror those of the right return elevation. A sacristy projects at the far right, facing the front elevation, and features a four-light cross window and a pediment with a cross-finial rising through a piended roof.
The rear elevation features a canted apse with five two-light windows, with the ridge slightly lower than the main roof.
The church is enclosed by various walls and octagonal piers with iron gates and fences along its front elevations, and a wall to the rear.
Inside, the church has six principal bays with octagonal piers and moulded pointed arches. A glazed timber narthex includes a lattic-pattern gallery above and a cross-braced roof with long wallposts. The interior boasts a richly decorated Gothic high altar and reredos, and a painted ceiling to the apse.
Local climate
St Patrick's Church, Main Street, Coatbridge 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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