Baptist Church Hall, Walker Street, Paisley is a Grade C listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Church. 1 related planning application.

Baptist Church Hall, Walker Street, Paisley

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 March 1985
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 475 638
Coordinates
55.84354, -4.43564
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Baptist Church Hall on Walker Street in Paisley dates from around 1900 and is likely designed by T.G. Abercrombie. It features a cruciform plan with an octagonal hall or church at its center. The building includes a two-storey range of rooms that face the church. The exterior is constructed of yellow stugged and snecked ashlar with polished dressings, while the rear elevations are made of rubble.

The front of the building facing Walker Street has two wide, gabled central bays with mullioned windows that have moulded arrises. The ground floor windows are seven lights, with two featuring blind cusped heads, and the upper floor has five-light windows. The doors also have moulded arrises in the re-entrant angles. There are large mullioned and transomed windows in the north, south, and west gables, along with two four-light windows in the long canted walls of the church.

The building is topped with a panelled parapet and a facetted octagonal roof over the church body, which features a central octagonal timber cupola and a bell-cast copper roof with a finial. Inside, there is a nine-sided galleried hall with cast-iron balusters on the stairs. The property also includes retaining walls and cast-iron railings.

Local climate

Baptist Church Hall, Walker Street, Paisley 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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