Yet more churches needing new uses... Glasgow Archdiocese to halve parishes and close 24 churches amid priest shortage

Yet more churches needing new uses... Glasgow Archdiocese to halve parishes and close 24 churches amid priest shortage

Of all sorts of styles and ages too. No wonder they dropped out of buying the former Townhead School as a museum...

Glasgow South

  • St Helen’s, already merged with St Albert’s, Pollokshields, will further merge with St Mary Immaculate, Pollokshaws, with a reduction to two churches within 5 years, with some of the territory of St Mary’s being transferred to St Gabriel’s in Merrylee.
  • Merger of St Bartholomew’s, Castlemilk and St Margaret Mary’s, Castlemilk, with an eventual reduction to one church within 5 years.
  • Merger of Our Lady of Lourdes, Cardonald with St Leo’s, Dumbreck, with an eventual reduction to one church within 5 years.
  • St James’ parish will merge with St Conval’s, with an eventual reduction to one church over 5–10 years.
  • St Constantine’s, Govan will merge with St Anthony’s, Govan, with one church closing depending on the condition of the buildings, within 5 years.
  • Holy Cross, Crosshill parish will merge with St Brigid’s, Toryglen within 5 years.
  • St Robert’s, Househillwood and St Bernard’s, Nitshill to discuss reducing to one church within 5 years.
  • St Vincent’s, Thornliebank parish will merge with Holy Name, Mansewood, with an eventual reduction to one church building within 5-10 years.
  • No immediate changes are proposed for the parishes of Christ the King, Our Lady and St George’s, St Gabriel’s and Blessed John Duns Scotus.

Glasgow West

  • St Peter’s, Partick parish, including the Glasgow University Chaplaincy, will merge with Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Broomhill, with an eventual reduction to one church within 10 years.
  • St Ninian’s, Knightswood will merge with Corpus Christi, Scotstounhill, St Laurence’s, Drumchapel, and St Benedict’s, Drumchapel, with an eventual reduction to two churches, one of them in Drumchapel, within 5 years.
  • St Columba’s, Woodside will merge with St Gregory’s in Wyndford and St Charles’, Oratory with an eventual reduction to one church within 5 years.
  • St Andrew’s Cathedral parish, including the Strathclyde University Chaplaincy, which is already merged with St Patrick’s, Anderston, will see an eventual reduction to one church within 5 years.
  • St Paul’s Whiteinch will be merged with St Brendan’s, Yoker, with eventual reduction to one building within ten years. No immediate change is proposed for the parish of the Immaculate Conception.

Glasgow East and North

  • St Michael’s, Parkhead will merge with Sacred Heart, Bridgeton, St Mark’s, Shettleston, St Joseph’s, Tollcross, and St Joachim’s, Carmyle, with future discussions on reducing provision to three buildings.
  • St Mary’s, Calton parish will merge with St Alphonsus, St Anne’s, Dennistoun, and Our Lady of Good Counsel, Dennistoun, with consultation on reducing church buildings over 5–10 years.
  • St Augustine’s, Milton will merge with St Agnes’, Lambhill, and St Teresa’s, Possilpark, with an eventual reduction to one or two buildings within 5 years.
  • St Catherine’s, Balornock will merge with St Aloysius’, Springburn, and Immaculate Heart of Mary, with a reduction to one or two buildings within 5 years.
  • St Thomas, Riddrie will merge with St Bernadette’s, Carntyne, and St Maria Goretti’s, Cranhill with an eventual reduction to one building within 5 years.
  • St Paul’s, Shettleston will merge with St Jude’s, Barlanark, and St Barnabas’, Shettleston, with an eventual reduction to one church within 5 years. No immediate change proposed for St Philomena’s.

East Dunbartonshire

  • St Joseph’s, Cumbernauld will merge with Sacred Heart and St Lucy’s, Cumbernauld, with these parishes eventually being reduced to two churches over 5–10 years.
  • Holy Cross, Croy will merge with Our Lady and St Helen’s, Condorrat, with an eventual reduction to one church over 5–10 years.
  • Holy Family and St Ninian’s, Kirkintilloch has already merged with St John of the Cross, Twechar, and St Flannan’s, Kirkintilloch, eventually being reduced to one church within 10 years.
  • St Andrew’s, Bearsden will merge with St Joseph’s, Milngavie within 5 years with the two churches being maintained. No immediate change is proposed for the two Bishopbriggs parishes.

West Dunbartonshire

  • St Kessog’s, Balloch to merge with St Martin’s, Renton, and Our Lady and St Mark’s, Alexandria, with an eventual reduction to one church over 5–10 years.
  • St Michael’s Parish, Dumbarton (including St Mahew’s church) to merge with St Joseph’s, Helensburgh, (including the churches of St Gildas’, Rosneath, and St Peter & St Paul, Arrochar). The document envisages the merger over the next 5–10 years, with Rosneath and Arrochar closing and St Michael’s, St Joseph’s and St Mahew’s being maintained.
  • Our Holy Redeemer and St Margaret’s Parish to merge with St Eunan’s, Clydebank, with a reduction to two church buildings within 5 years.
  • St Mary’s, Duntocher, merged with St Joseph’s, Faifley, will reduce to one church within 5 years. St Stephen’s, Dalmuir parish will merge with St Patrick’s, Old Kilpatrick, with an eventual reduction to one church over 5–10 years.
  • No immediate change is proposed for St Patrick’s, Dumbarton.
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u/mymuk — 8 days ago

Four from Dalmeny House

National Trust for Scotland place. Unused and not open house, gardens open and very pleasant.

u/mymuk — 12 days ago

Grumpy.

The grumpy man over the door of the Merchants House of Glasgow on West George Street.

He may be grumpy because someone decided to drill two holes in him, or maybe because the building as a whole is filthy and covered in wires and buddleia.

u/mymuk — 17 days ago
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Plans for a Necropolis East Gate dropped at last.

u/mymuk — 23 days ago

Shockingly bad work at the old bank.

Pretty shockingly bad work on the old bank on Sauchiehall Street. Aggressive sandblasting has wrecked surface areas of the stone (and not even got rid of the ghosts of the graffiti they were aiming at) and new holes in the granite for cheap brass numbers, when the old ones could have been used (even if only to fix plaques to support new numbers).

u/mymuk — 24 days ago
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More like "famous for stealing half the pavement".

u/mymuk — 24 days ago
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NuGlasgow - spiritual successor to ReGlasgow

After the closure of the much-loved ReGlasgow website (Aug 2024), decided to create a platform that answers a question we all frequently ask: "What's being built there?"

I hope you like it. I have tried to cover quite a lot of ground with this in a short space of time, so please pardon any initial inaccuracies. There is a feedback button if something is wrong or if there is aught lacking, as well as a support button which will help me keep the project improvements and development news moving.

Many thanks to JB for the original site - it was a website I loved to frequent!

nuglasgow.site
u/Specialist_Future458 — 29 days ago
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The St Enoch Square Nuisance

Not much changes, eh?

u/mymuk — 1 month ago
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Historic flat roof to pitch house type

Help an east coaster out.

I've previously (self) learned about a Glasgow house type that "famously" had a flat roof to pitch roof conversion.

I want to say the houses are the ones in Downfield Street, Tollcross, and these houses feature elsewhere in Glasgow. Sometimes the pitch above the door was left as a flat roof or was mono pitched.

I've only been able to remember the area as I remember commenting while driving past and going "oh it's those houses" and spending a while checking known darras I would have driven around.

Can anyone confirm or deny? Or even provide an informative link?

reddit.com
u/ashyboi5000 — 1 month ago
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This futuristic student village is now Europe’s largest 3D-printed housing development

New student housing near VIA University College in Denmark is now the largest 3D-printed housing project in Europe—and it shows the possibilities of 3D-printed housing when it’s built at scale.

Called Skovsporet, the development is a 36-unit complex spread across six buildings on an area of 17,760 square feet in Holstebro, a town on the west side of the Jutland peninsula. Each low-rise unit is made from a low-carbon concrete that was 3D-printed on site. Each of the private apartments was designed as a complete home, with a sleeping area, bathroom, lounge, kitchen, and study area.

Large windows and a slanted timber hybrid roof allow in natural light, and cork panels and glass give it texture in addition to the 3D-printed walls. Each apartment was built around shared courtyards connected by walking paths and garden landscapes.

The previous largest 3D-printed housing project in Europe was ViliaSprint, a three-story, 12-unit complex completed this spring in Reims, France. Germany built its first 3D-printed public housing in the city of Lünen in 2023.

Read more on Fast Company.

u/Plow_King — 1 month ago

Raised eyebrows on Cathcart Road.

This - somewhat pointless anyway - pair of arched hood mouldings over the central windows were cut back when the iron banding was added to stop subsidence - that whole area has old mineworkings under it that are not great for foundations...

u/mymuk — 1 month ago

Symmetry on Daisy Street.

The former Govanhill United Presbyterian Church (Robert Baldie, 1880) on Daisy Street - nicely closing the view from Cathcart Road up Bankhall Street. Now disused but (so far) not burnt down...

We have so many of these churches, but what to do with them now they have no use?

u/mymuk — 1 month ago

Short-lived chambers...

The former Cathcart Parish Council Chambers in Prospecthill Road. Built in 1907 by Crawford & Veitch. Within 5 years the parish had been incorporated into the City of Glasgow.

Now Mount Florida Medical Centre and displaying all the typical Glasgow signs of decay from lack of maintenance.

u/mymuk — 1 month ago
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Five years gone, still nothing built there...

The last hours of the Old College Bar, June 2021.

u/mymuk — 1 month ago
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Some places are perhaps neglected for a reason...

Side entrance of the former Good Templar Halls of 1881 in Dyer's Wynd in Paisley. Site of the worst cinema disaster in Scottish history at Hogmanay in 1929 when 71 children died after a call of "fire" resulted in a stampede for the exits.

Almost a thousand children were at a matinee screening of silent western Dude Desperado when a smoking film canister lead to the fire panic. Many ran downstairs to a padlocked fire escape. Suffocating children piled up against the inward-opening door, police couldn’t break it open from the outside.

The disaster lead to amendments to the Cinematograph Act 1909 to make it a legal requirement for cinemas to have an increased number of fire escapes, all outward-opening and fitted with push bars, and for seating capacities to reflect the number of exits.

u/mymuk — 1 month ago