Chalmers Church, Henderson Street, Bridge Of Allan is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1977. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Chalmers Church, Henderson Street, Bridge Of Allan
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-groin-hemlock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1977
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Chalmers Church, Henderson Street, Bridge Of Allan, FK9 4HG
- OS grid reference
- NS 793 974
- Coordinates
- 56.15472, -3.944
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Chalmers Church, located on Henderson Street in Bridge of Allan, was designed by J W & J H Hay from Liverpool and completed in 1856. This mid-pointed, cruciform church is built from rubble and features a south broach spire that rises to 108 feet. The structure has a low, broad three-bay nave with a steep roof, lower transepts, and an apse.
Notable architectural elements include an interesting treatment of the tower and spire, with massive diagonal buttresses that support a broad flight of steps leading to a door with two orders. The second stage of the tower features a three-light curvilinear window, while the third stage has triple lancets that are stepped in the broaches of the spire. The spire is adorned with two-light lucarnes and two tiers of smaller gablets above.
The south bays of the nave are fitted with tall two-light curvilinear windows raised in gablets, while the north two bays have depressed-arch two-light windows. The church is topped with slated roofs and is set back from the street, approached by an avenue, providing a fine setting for this striking building.
Local climate
Chalmers Church, Henderson Street, Bridge Of Allan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 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 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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