Halls And Session House, Burnside Parish Church, Church Avenue, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 March 1971. Church.
Halls And Session House, Burnside Parish Church, Church Avenue, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- tired-tower-hyssop
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Rutherglen MP: Michael Shanks (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 622 600
- Coordinates
- 55.81404, -4.19975
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Halls and Session House at Burnside Parish Church, located on Church Avenue in Glasgow, were originally designed by Stewart & Paterson between 1909 and 1911 as St Gilbert's Church in Pollokshields. The church was relocated to this site between 1950 and 1954, along with simpler halls and a polygonal session house that were built from 1926 to 1928 by J J Craig & Son. The buildings are prominently situated on a rise overlooking Burnside.
The church is designed in the Gothic style, featuring lancet windows and constructed from rock-faced red ashlar with polished dressings, although some concealed elevations are faced in 1950s brick. The church has a rectangular shape, with a triple-light Dunblane-type main gable facing north and mostly paired lancets on the sides. The west flank resembles H E Clifford's Titwood Church from 1893-1895, featuring a side aisle that links to a porch at one end and a transept at the other. The east flank lacks a side aisle and porch but includes a doorway and a polygonal, shallow transept. The interior fittings are original and were relocated, except for the organ, which came from Belmont Church.
Adjoining the east gable of the church is the polygonal-ended session house, which includes a main hall featuring a stepped three-light window. A retaining wall at the front is also made of red ashlar, and there are steps with iron lambs and railings.
Local climate
Halls And Session House, Burnside Parish Church, Church Avenue, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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