South Parish Church, Belmont Street, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Ecclesiastical building. 4 related planning applications.
South Parish Church, Belmont Street, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- sacred-rotunda-barley
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Ecclesiastical building
- OS grid reference
- NJ 940 062
- Coordinates
- 57.14669, -2.10078
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
South Parish Church, located on Belmont Street in Aberdeen, was designed by John Smith and built between 1830 and 1831. This Gothic-style church features a distinctive T-plan layout and a prominent three-stage clock tower. The exterior is characterized by clasping buttresses and pointed-arch openings adorned with timber tracery, constructed from grey granite ashlar with moulded dressings.
On the west elevation, the central section is advanced and includes steps leading to a double-leaf timber door with a hoodmould. The clock tower has a diamond-moulded surround for the clock on the north, west, and south elevations, with louvred openings in the belfry topped by ogee-hoodmoulds. The tower is capped with a castellated parapet and octagonal corner pinnacles. The north and south elevations feature advanced pointed-arched doorpieces that rise to clasping buttresses, flanking a central window.
The roof is covered with grey slate, and the building has cast-iron rainwater goods. There is a curving plinth boundary wall with railings to the southwest.
The interior was extensively modernized in 1999 to accommodate a public house, as observed in 2006.
Local climate
South Parish Church, Belmont Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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