Church Of Scotland, Main Street, Glenboig is a Grade C listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 May 1990. Church.

Church Of Scotland, Main Street, Glenboig

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
North Lanarkshire
Constituency
Coatbridge and Bellshill MP: Frank McNally (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 May 1990
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 723 685
Coordinates
55.89327, -4.04301
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Church of Scotland on Main Street in Glenboig is a Gothic Revival church designed by George Arthur of Airdrie, built between 1890 and 1891. It features an early English style with a gabled front facing the street. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone, accented with ashlar dressings, and includes band course strings and hoodmoulds on the front buttressed elevations.

The west elevation showcases the nave and aisles, with a central doorway that has a moulded surround, single nookshafts, and bell capitals. The entrance features a boarded double door with decorative cast-iron hinges. Flanking the doorway are two narrow lancet windows, and above them is a window consisting of three stepped lancets. At the gablehead, there is a gabled and finialled ashlar bellcote. The north and south flanks are four bays long, with tall lancet windows separated by buttresses. The east gable has widely spaced lancet windows flanking the pulpit.

Inside, the church has a ceiled collar-beam roof supported by four arched brace beams, made of laminated pitch pine with pierced ornament and moulded corbels. There is a gallery at the front gable, with the pulpit positioned opposite, and all furnishings are made of yellow pine. The stained glass in the west window was created by Sadie F McLellan in 1975, and the organ, built by Ingram of Edinburgh, dates back to 1841.

Local climate

Church Of Scotland, Main Street, Glenboig 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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