Roman Catholic Church Of The Sacred Heart And Presbytery House, Torry, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Church, presbytery.

Roman Catholic Church Of The Sacred Heart And Presbytery House, Torry, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Church, presbytery
OS grid reference
NJ 948 050
Coordinates
57.1359, -2.0875
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart and the Presbytery House in Torry, Aberdeen, was designed by C.J. Menart in 1911 and features an Early Provence-Auvergne Romanesque style. The building has a cruciform shape with an aisled apse and a broad lantern crossing tower. It is constructed from random freestone rubble, and the roof is made of red English tiles. Inside, there is a baldacchino that reflects Roman and Early Christian influences.

Local climate

Roman Catholic Church Of The Sacred Heart And Presbytery House, Torry, 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 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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