---
title: "Port Glasgow URC"
description: "Located in Port Glasgow, Strathclyde. Built Refurbished 1964 (former Temperance Institute)."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","United Reformed Church","Strathclyde","Port Glasgow","Inverclyde"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/port-glasgow-urc-port-glasgow"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:32:23.412Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T14:52:48.701Z"
location: "Port Glasgow, Strathclyde"
country: "Scotland"
county: "Strathclyde"
town: "Port Glasgow"
address: "Brown Street, Port Glasgow, Strathclyde, PA14 5BP"
postcode: "PA14 5BP"
built: "Refurbished 1964 (former Temperance Institute)"
architect: "Fred McDermid (1964 conversion)"
denomination: "United Reformed Church"
openingHours: "Open by arrangement."
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# Port Glasgow URC

Port Glasgow United Reformed Church on Brown Street is an unlisted congregation church occupying a former Temperance Institute, converted in 1964.

## Overview

Scotland’s Churches Trust records that Fred McDermid redesigned the building in 1964 when members moved from the Congregational Union church in Balfour Street (1883). Communion furniture, font and stained glass came from the older building. The Good Shepherd window is by Harold Clokey of Belfast, dedicated on 10 April 1955 in Balfour Street and later transferred. The nearby former West Church of Scotland on Brown Street (J. J. Burnet, 1885, Category B, LB40068) is a different building and is no longer in ecclesiastical use. The URC premises themselves are unlisted.

## Further Information

- [Scotland’s Churches Trust](https://www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/port-glasgow-united-reformed-church/)