Gaelic Chapel, 20 Oakshaw Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Former church. 1 related planning application.
Gaelic Chapel, 20 Oakshaw Street, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- third-tracery-smoke
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1985
- Type
- Former church
- Address
- Gaelic Chapel, 20 Oakshaw Street, Paisley, PA1 2DD
- OS grid reference
- NS 480 641
- Coordinates
- 55.84651, -4.42875
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gaelic Chapel, located at 20 Oakshaw Street in Paisley, was built in 1793 and altered in 1909 by T G Abercrombie. The building features a layout of five by three bays and is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings.
On the south elevation, there is a former gallery level that includes a round arched and pilastered doorpiece designed by Abercrombie. The windows, particularly those in the second and fourth bays, have been altered by Abercrombie and feature margined designs. The ground and first-floor corniced windows are linked by raised ashlar panels that display oval medallions commemorating the 1909 restoration. The building has an eaves band and cornice, topped with a slate piended roof. The other elevations maintain simple original details.
Inside, the chapel is divided into two floors. The exterior is complemented by square ashlar gatepiers with cornices and pyramidal caps, along with simple arrowhead gates and stair rails.
Local climate
Gaelic Chapel, 20 Oakshaw 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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