Wellwynd Church, Wellwynd, Airdrie is a Grade C listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1979. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Wellwynd Church, Wellwynd, Airdrie
- WRENN ID
- high-crypt-rowan
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Airdrie and Shotts MP: Kenneth Stevenson (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1979
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Wellwynd Church, Wellwynd, Airdrie, ML6 0BN
- OS grid reference
- NS 760 655
- Coordinates
- 55.86753, -3.98305
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Wellwynd Church, built in 1847, is a plain gabled Gothic church with a symmetrical, rectangular plan and three bays. The exterior features yellow ashlar sandstone with squared and snecked stone on the sides and rear. It has a base course and lancet windows with chamfered reveals.
On the south elevation, the central bay is flanked by stepped clasped buttresses that end in pinnacles, which break the eaves. The entrance is a pointed arch with a roll-moulded, chamfered reveal, and there is a string course above it. A stone mullioned tripartite window is positioned above the entrance, with a triangular panel at the gable head and a quatrefoil balustrade. Tall lancet windows flank the entrance, and diagonal buttresses support the outer bays.
The north elevation features a small arrow slit at the gable head and a two-storey, three-bay lean-to addition that is harled. The east elevation has four bays with tall lancets, except for a small window in the outer right bay. The west elevation mirrors the east.
The church has modern geometrically patterned coloured glass, grey slate roofing with lead flashing, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Inside, there is a dentil-moulded plasterwork cornice and a timber panelled gallery supported by cast-iron columns with foliate capitals and scrollwork soffits. The organ recess is segmentally arched with chamfered returns and foliate corbels that support the arch springing.
Local climate
Wellwynd Church, Wellwynd, 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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