{"id":618363,"date":"2025-12-07T17:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/618363\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T17:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:39:20","slug":"b-listed-pollokshaws-parish-church-suffers-significant-damage-after-early-morning-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/618363\/","title":{"rendered":"B-listed Pollokshaws Parish Church suffers significant damage after early-morning blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A church building in Glasgow has suffered a fire overnight and appears significantly damaged.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flames tore through Pollokshaws Parish Church after the blaze broke out on Sunday before 3am.<\/p>\n<p>The building dates back to 1843 and is B-listed.<\/p>\n<p>Once firefighters had extinguished the flames later on Sunday, the roof of the building appeared to have been destroyed and its walls had also suffered damage.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said they were called to a fire at a derelict church at 2.44am.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman said: \u201cWe mobilised six appliances, including one height appliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters had put out the blaze by Sunday afternoon and were preparing to leave the scene.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of any injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Glasgow City Council urged drivers to avoid the area, saying: \u201cShawbridge Street between both terminations of Shawholm Crescent is currently closed to traffic due to a fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmergency services are on location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoad users are advised to use alternative routes and delays are to expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758059248_2_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A church building in Glasgow has suffered a fire overnight and appears significantly damaged. Flames tore through Pollokshaws&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-618363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115679511487945268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}