Holy Trinity And St Barnabas Church, St James'street, Paisley, Excluding Church Halls To South is a Grade C listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 January 2015. Church.
Holy Trinity And St Barnabas Church, St James'street, Paisley, Excluding Church Halls To South
- WRENN ID
- deep-soffit-ebony
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP: Alison Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 January 2015
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 482 643
- Coordinates
- 55.84821, -4.42589
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Holy Trinity and St Barnabas Church is a Tudor-Gothic Episcopal church located on St James's Street in Paisley, designed by James Drummond between 1828 and 1833, with a chancel added by David Thomson in 1884. The church has a rectangular plan and symmetrical design, featuring a crenelated west gable with pinnacled buttresses and tall lancet windows in the nave. It is prominently situated at the head of St James Place. The exterior is constructed of sandstone ashlar on the west and margins, with rubble on the side elevations and stugged, snecked sandstone on the chancel. Architectural details include a base course, eaves course, chamfered window margins, and some hoodmoulding around the windows and entrance doorway. The west gable features a tripartite pointed-arch window, while the east end has a gabled chancel and a lower gabled vestry outshot to the north. The church is predominantly fitted with diamond-pane leaded glazing and stained glass windows, and it has a grey slate roof.
The interior, as seen in 2014, includes a shallow pointed arch roof in the nave with plain rib vaulting supported by a timber cornice. There is a timber balcony at the west end, which is supported by slim iron columns and features a decorative gothic balustrade. The west window contains stained glass by Colin Stevenson, created in 2004. The chancel arch is made of red sandstone and is supported by engaged Corinthian columns, with lower pointed-arch openings on either side. A low, carved oak chancel screen serves as a War Memorial from 1921, along with timber choir stalls. The chancel features a braced roof and Minton tiles on the floor and walls around the altar, along with marble and alabaster Gothic rederos.
Local climate
Holy Trinity And St Barnabas Church, St James'street, Paisley, Excluding Church Halls To South sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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