Fordoun Parish Church, Auchenblae is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1972. Church.

Fordoun Parish Church, Auchenblae

WRENN ID
drifting-clay-quill
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 August 1972
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NO 726 784
Coordinates
56.89656, -2.45133
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Fordoun Parish Church in Auchenblae was designed by John Smith between 1827 and 1829. This Neo-Perpendicular church features a rectangular plan with five bays and a tower that rises to 93 feet at the west gable. The tower has three tall stages, supported by stepped diagonal buttresses, and is topped with an arcaded parapet, central and corner crocketted pinnacles. The lowest stage includes a four-centre arch doorpiece, while the second stage has traceried windows with hoodmoulded clock faces above. The belfry openings are tall, four-centre arched with wooden Y tracery and ogee hoodmoulds, complemented by transomed four-centre arched windows also featuring Y tracery. The flanks of the tower are treated with stepped angle buttresses and pinnacles. Inside, the church boasts a horseshoe galleried layout.

Local climate

Fordoun Parish Church, Auchenblae receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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