Former St John's Church, School Wynd, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Church. 1 related planning application.
Former St John's Church, School Wynd, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- sacred-tracery-cedar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Former St John's Church, School Wynd, Paisley, PA1 2DB
- OS grid reference
- NS 482 640
- Coordinates
- 55.84601, -4.42553
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former St John's Church in School Wynd, Paisley, was designed by the architects James Salmon and Son and built between 1862 and 1863. It features a rectangular plan with a semi-octagonal apse and is constructed from snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. The gabled front is notable for its bold inner buttresses, which are topped by octagonal turrets adorned with pierced ornament and spirelets, along with angle buttresses capped by pyramidal pinnacles.
The central entrance consists of a three-order pointed arch, flanked by two arches with nook shafts and stiff-leaf capitals. Above the entrance is a five-light window with plate tracery, while the aisles feature lancet windows also with plate tracery. The six-bay sides are divided by buttresses, with lancets at the front of the bays closest to the entrance, a door on the left side, and a two-light window with a quatrefoil in the remaining five bays. The parapet is pierced by quatrefoils, and the end buttresses are pinnacled.
The taller apse has lancet windows on all three facets and a pierced parapet. The slate roof is designed with bands in a fish-scale pattern. Inside, the church has galleries on three sides supported by colonettes at ground level, an organ located in the apse, and a hammerbeam roof.
Local climate
Former St John's Church, School Wynd, 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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