Parish Church, Strichen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1982. Church.

Parish Church, Strichen

WRENN ID
open-chamber-saffron
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 947 547
Coordinates
57.58241, -2.09021
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The former Strichen Parish Church, built in 1798 by John Adamson and refurbished in 1844 by Alexander Ellis, is a rectangular-plan, gabled building situated in the burial ground between Newton Wood and the North Ugie Water in the village of Strichen, Aberdeenshire.

Constructed from granite rubble with later cement render, the church features gables with round-headed doorways, Serlian windows, and ball finials above. The west gable is topped with a stone birdcage bellcote. The south elevation has four large round-arched windows, with some zinc window frames that retain simple twin-arched tracery. The roof is slated and includes metal roof vents along the ridge. At the southeast corner, there is a single-storey furnace house/session house addition, which is now roofless and has a tall chimney. The interior has been largely stripped, but an exposed timber king-post ceiling structure remains.

Local climate

Parish Church, Strichen receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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