Alexandria Methodist Church, Albert Street, Alexandria is a Grade C listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. Church.

Alexandria Methodist Church, Albert Street, Alexandria

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
West Dunbartonshire
Constituency
West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1996
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 391 797
Coordinates
55.98366, -4.58047
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Alexandria Methodist Church, built by Malcolm Stark between 1877 and 1878, is a simple gabled rectangular-plan church constructed from stugged squared and snecked red sandstone, featuring painted ashlar margins and dressing, a base course, a string course, painted quoins, and harled and painted side elevations.

The south elevation includes a shallow gabled porch topped with an arrowhead finial, a pointed-arch doorway, and an ecclesiastical pattern of windows in the gablehead, with moulding around the broad pointed arch and a two-leaf boarded door. Above, there is a pointed window with leaded glass. The west elevation features a four-bay chancel with narrow, deep-set small pointed arch windows and a vestry at the rear with a piend roof.

The church has a steeply pitched grey slate roof with ashlar coping at the skews, terracotta ridging, and two lucarne lead ventilation openings in the roof.

Inside, as seen in 2007, the original decorative scheme remains largely intact, with timber pews and a decorative timber pulpit and chair featuring a quatrefoil style design. The open roof timbers are believed to be in situ above a later low false ceiling.

The church is complemented by square gatepiers with pyramidal caps and ball finials, a sandstone wall with ashlar coping, and plain cast-iron railings.

Local climate

Alexandria Methodist Church, Albert Street, Alexandria sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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