New Byth Church, Bridge Street, New Byth is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1982. Church.

New Byth Church, Bridge Street, New Byth

WRENN ID
crumbling-rood-dawn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 February 1982
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NJ 821 538
Coordinates
57.57432, -2.3
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

New Byth Church, located on Bridge Street in New Byth, was designed by architects A & W Reid from Elgin and is dated 1851. This simple rectangular church is constructed of red rubble with tooled red sandstone ashlar dressings and chamfered margins. The east-facing entrance gable features a central pointed-headed entrance flanked by hoodmoulded lancet windows, and there is an apex bellcote with a datestone at its base, along with angle buttresses. The north and south elevations are four bays long and are lit by narrow pointed-headed windows with leaded lattice-pane glazing. There is a later vestry at the rear of the church. The roof is made of slate.

Inside, the church has a simple galleried interior, although the gallery is masked by a later inserted ceiling, and the seats have been re-used from elsewhere. The gallery front is painted and panelled. The pulpit and pews are also simply panelled. A notable feature is an ornate inlaid marble mural memorial on the west wall dedicated to Colonel Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart of Meldrum and Bythe. In the entrance lobby, there is a mural memorial to Reverend John Falconer, who died in 1895.

The forecourt is enclosed by pyramidally capped sandstone ashlar piers linked by iron railings, surrounding the area by the east entrance.

Local climate

New Byth Church, Bridge Street, New Byth receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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