Elim Pentecostal Church, 50 Marischal Street is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 July 2007. Church. 1 related planning application.
Elim Pentecostal Church, 50 Marischal Street
- WRENN ID
- solemn-gable-swallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 July 2007
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Elim Pentecostal Church, 50 Marischal Street, AB11 5AL
- OS grid reference
- NJ 945 061
- Coordinates
- 57.14662, -2.09216
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Elim Pentecostal Church, located at 50 Marischal Street, was built in 1877 and features a three-bay gabled Gothic design. The church is characterized by pointed-arched openings and unique crocketed and saw-toothed decorations at the skews, which end in a bellcote. It is constructed from grey granite ashlar with recessed sandstone around the clerestory windows.
The east elevation includes recessed two-leaf timber doors in each ground floor bay, adorned with decorative cast-iron hinges and moulded surrounds, and pointed-arched fanlights above. The central doorway is slightly advanced and features a gabled doorpiece with a cross at the apex. Above this, there are cinquefoil stained-glass windows with sandstone dressings flanking a tripartite lancet window, also with sandstone dressings and a vesica at the center, all set within a pointed-arched opening. A small quatrefoil louvred opening is positioned above. The south elevation boasts three large pointed-arched windows with intricate tracery, while a segmental-arched pend runs beneath the building at Theatre Lane. The west elevation has two additional pointed-arched windows. On the north elevation, there is a single sash and case window above the pend at Theatre Lane. The roof is covered with grey slate, and cast-iron rainwater goods are present.
Inside, the church features pointed-arch timber doors leading to the vestibule and main hall. The vestibule wall is fitted with fixed-pane leaded glazing. The large hall has a simple ribbed plasterwork coombed ceiling, and there is a gallery to the east decorated with quatrefoil and dentil motifs, supported by cast-iron columns. The vaulted basement consists of four long and shallow brick chambers.
Local climate
Elim Pentecostal Church, 50 Marischal Street 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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