Greenlaw Church, Greenlaw Avenue, 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.
Greenlaw Church, Greenlaw Avenue, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- rusted-vault-mallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP: Alison Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Greenlaw Church, Greenlaw Avenue, Paisley, PA1 3RE
- OS grid reference
- NS 490 642
- Coordinates
- 55.84783, -4.4124
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Greenlaw Church, located on Greenlaw Avenue in Paisley, was built in 1889 in the style of Burnet and Campbell, with modern additions at the rear. It features a first pointed Gothic design, consisting of an aisleless nave with transepts. The exterior is constructed of snecked and stugged ashlar, highlighted by a gabled west front. The entrance includes a splayed and moulded pointed-arch doorway, flanked by buttresses and small pointed windows. Above the doorway are three lancets with linked hoodmoulds, and a louvred quatrefoil is set in the gable. The church has angle buttresses, and to the right, there is a projecting porch with a cat slide roof. A pointed arch doorway is located on the south side, with three pointed windows above it.
The long elevations of the church feature paired lancets, with three pairs on the south side and four on the north, along with two small windows at the west end. The transepts consist of two bays each, gabled, and include two-light and quatrefoil windows. The east end of the nave has a vesica in the gable, and the sanctuary projects outward with at least three lancets and a roof that reduces pitch in the lower parts. The roofs are covered with green slate and feature ridge tiles, along with an octagonal roof ventilator topped with a spirelet over the nave.
At the northeast corner, there is a single-storey session room and vestry, which includes a modern extension. Inside, the chancel arch is flanked by two smaller arches that house organs. The nave roof is a hybrid of hammer beam and collar beam styles, and there is a coved rear gallery supported by two balustered supports.
Local climate
Greenlaw Church, Greenlaw Avenue, 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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