St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, Sinclair Street, Clydebank is a Grade B listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 September 1994. Church, presbytery.

St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, Sinclair Street, Clydebank

WRENN ID
sunken-transept-vetch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Dunbartonshire
Constituency
West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 September 1994
Type
Church, presbytery
OS grid reference
NS 509 696
Coordinates
55.89653, -4.38527
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, located on Sinclair Street in Clydebank, was designed by Gillespie, Kidd and Coia in 1972. The church has a roughly rectangular shape, featuring yellow facing brick walls on three sides and a small half-hexagonal apse. The roof is aluminium clad, with a space-frame construction in the center, and the glazing slopes from the wallheads to the central panel.

The front elevation includes a timber-framed glazed frontage topped with an aluminium-clad oversailing flat roof, which has an irregular polygonal plan. The front faces of the porch and main roofs display deep aluminium-panelled fascias, with the former inscribed with the name "SAINT MARGARETS" and a cross.

The side and rear elevations are constructed in plain brick stretcher bond, with courses of vertically-set stretches at intervals. Some of these vertical stretches have been omitted to provide cavity-wall ventilation.

Inside, the church is arranged for post-Vatican II liturgy from the outset. It features tiered wooden seating arranged in a fan shape around a stone-faced altar on a low dais, with a tabernacle positioned on a two-stage brick plinth at the rear. The sides and rear of the interior have multi-recessed brick panelling that reduces in height from the center, with diagonal pine panelling above.

Adjacent to the church is the presbytery, which is a two-storey structure with a flat roof and timber cladding. It is set in a bunker with vertical brick inner walls and grassed 'glacis' on the outer faces.

Local climate

St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, Sinclair Street, Clydebank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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 0.3°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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