St Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Cardross Road, Dumbarton is a Grade B listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 September 1994. Church.
St Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Cardross Road, Dumbarton
- WRENN ID
- mired-pier-merlin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 September 1994
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 387 758
- Coordinates
- 55.94844, -4.58315
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Michael's Roman Catholic Church, designed by Gillespie Kidd and Coia in 1951, is a very long church located on Cardross Road in Dumbarton. It features an aisle to the south and a tower at the southwest corner. The exterior is constructed of red facing brick with concrete dressings and has a low pitched copper roof. The body of the church is illuminated at the upper level by eleven diamond-shaped clerestory windows on the north side, while the lower level has rectangular windows. At the east end, there are tall multi-paned windows flanking the altar, and there is no fenestration in the east gable. The west end features a large multipaned window with a flat pointed head, which is divided horizontally by a concrete awning over the entrance, along with a smaller multi-paned window to the left. The gabled tower has solid east and west gables, with louvred belfry openings on the north and south sides, and is recessed with very large multipane glazed windows that protect a rood panel by Jack Mortimer. Above the belfry, there are pierced panels.
Entrances are accessed from a brick platform that has decorative iron railings wrapping around the southwest angle. The aisle is divided into three sections. The west section includes an entrance bay with a double door and a door with a multipane glazed tripartite window in the center. There are four pairs of confessionals with paired small rectangular windows, and a block with five larger square windows.
The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
St Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Cardross Road, Dumbarton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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