St Andrew's Parish Church, Avon Street, Hamilton is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1988. Church. 6 related planning applications.

St Andrew's Parish Church, Avon Street, Hamilton

WRENN ID
veiled-outpost-dawn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 March 1988
Type
Church
Address
St Andrew's Parish Church, Avon Street, Hamilton, ML3 7HU
OS grid reference
NS 723 550
Coordinates
55.77233, -4.03602
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Andrew's Parish Church, located on Avon Street in Hamilton, was designed by John Bennie Wilson in 1895. This Gothic church features a symmetrical street elevation, with a buttressed nave gable and tall octagonal stair turrets that front the aisles, each topped with facetted roofs. Shallow porches connect the bays, and the main roof sweeps over the aisles, complemented by shallow gabled transepts and a shallow chancel that houses the organ and is fronted by a pulpit. The exterior is constructed of bull-faced red Dumfriesshire ashlar with polished dressings, and the roofs are slated with red ridging tiles. To the left of the church is a hall that also features a gable facing the street. Inside, the church has cast-iron columns supporting the roof, a gallery with a panelled front, a good series of leaded glass windows, and aisle arcades. The entire structure is enclosed by wrought-iron railings and decorative gates.

Local climate

St Andrew's Parish Church, Avon Street, Hamilton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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