Saint Machar's Episcopal Church, Old Meldrum Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Church.

Saint Machar's Episcopal Church, Old Meldrum Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NJ 897 097
Coordinates
57.17869, -2.17062
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Saint Machar's Episcopal Church, located on Old Meldrum Road in Bucksburn, Aberdeen, was designed by A. Marshall Mackenzie of Matthews and Mackenzie and built between 1878 and 1880. The church features early pointed, pinned squared granite construction and has an aisleless five-bay nave that lacks a bellcote. It includes a west wheel window and an apsed chancel. The interior boasts a pointed waggon roof and a notable scheme of mural decoration in the chancel arch and chancel, which was completed by Douglas Strachen around 1904.

Local climate

Saint Machar's Episcopal Church, Old Meldrum Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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