West Parish Church, West High Street, Inverurie is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 August 1998. Church. 1 related planning application.

West Parish Church, West High Street, Inverurie

WRENN ID
south-stronghold-cobweb
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 August 1998
Type
Church
Address
West Parish Church, West High Street, Inverurie, AB51 3SA
OS grid reference
NJ 774 215
Coordinates
57.28417, -2.37636
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

West Parish Church, located on West High Street in Inverurie, was designed by Donald McMillan and built between 1874 and 1877, with a chapel added in 1936 and a memorial apse in 1950. This church is constructed in a simple Gothic style and is situated on a corner site. It features a broached stone spire and a two-stage buttressed tower. The building is made of grey and pink granite, with ashlar stone used on the front gable, tower, and chapel, while coursed rubble is used elsewhere. The roof is covered with grey slate.

The church has polished ashlar dressings, an eaves course, ashlar coped skews, a fleur-de-lis finial on the front, and a cast-iron finial at the rear. The original building includes diamond-paned lattice windows, while the chapel has two-light windows with pointed timber astragals and leaded glazing.

On the front gable elevation, there are paired pointed arch doors at the center with trefoil plate traceried doorheads, and a small pointed arch door to the right. Above these doors is a four-light bar-traceried gallery window, with a lancet window to the right. The tower on the left features a two-light pointed window at the first stage on the front and left return elevations, pointed arch louvred openings with gabled heads at the second stage, and lucarnes at mid-spire height. The side elevations have five pointed arch windows with a continuous band course at the springing level. The rear gable is adorned with a large rose window.

The chapel is a lower single-storey building at the rear gable, featuring a door with a large transom light, three windows, and a memorial apse with a cross window.

Inside, the church has cast-iron cluster columns that rise through the gallery to support a queen post roof (which does not have ties). The gallery surrounds three sides of the interior and retains original pews. The central pulpit is located on the rear wall and is approached by two flights of steps. The Rushworth and Dreaper organ, designed around the rose window, was installed in 1935.

Local climate

West Parish Church, West High Street, Inverurie receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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