Low Church, New Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1971. Church. 9 related planning applications.
Low Church, New Street, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- waning-rotunda-soot
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Low Church, New Street, Paisley, PA1 1EZ
- OS grid reference
- NS 482 638
- Coordinates
- 55.84391, -4.42444
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Low Church, located on New Street in Paisley, was designed by master masons James Baird and John Hart and built between 1736 and 1738. The church underwent external alterations and internal refurnishing in 1873. It features a simple T-plan layout and is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings. The gables and gablets are all crowstepped.
The symmetrical south elevation has three bays and includes a gabled projecting porch. The porch contains a pointed-arched door with a blind oculus above, flanked by one lancet window on each side wall, both raised through the eaves and gabletted. Additionally, the porch is accompanied by an inner Y-traceried window and an outer lancet, all similarly raised and gabletted.
The east and west elevations are gabled and feature large windows with intersecting tracery. The west elevation includes a door and two square-headed windows, while the east elevation has been blocked. The north elevation showcases a large projecting gabled wing. The interior of the church has been entirely modernised.
Local climate
Low Church, New 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 — 9 applications
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