Boundary Walls, St Andrew's Church Of Scotland Parish Church, Queen Street is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 2005.
Boundary Walls, St Andrew's Church Of Scotland Parish Church, Queen Street
- WRENN ID
- silver-vault-sable
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 2005
- OS grid reference
- NK 130 464
- Coordinates
- 57.50838, -1.7836
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Andrew's Church of Scotland Parish Church, located on Queen Street, was built in 1870. It is a plain Gothic church with a broad, low rectangular plan and an aisless design. The church features a three-bay nave, flanked by squat two-stage entrance towers. Its exterior is constructed from stugged pink granite with contrasting grey granite dressings, and it includes base and eaves courses as well as band courses that appear as continuous hoodmoulds. Notable elements include stone tracery and a vesica on the west side, along with a rose window on the east.
The west elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a broad gabled front that incorporates a large traceried tripartite window and a blind vesica in the gable head. Each flanking tower has a two-leaf boarded timber door at the square first stage, leading to a reduced octagonal second stage with a single lancet window and a polygonal turret roof that is decoratively finialled.
The north and south elevations feature three large windows with distinctive horizontal coursing. The east elevation has a gabled design with a rose window in the gable head, and it includes a low single-storey vestry and church halls that project at ground level, clasping the outer right angle.
Inside, the church has fixed timber pews, boarded dadoes, a pipe organ, and moulded plasterwork cornices with diamond-pattern details at the apex of the roof, which may have been former ventilators. The coloured figurative window on the west depicts scenes such as the 'Sower', 'Lost Piece of Silver', 'Prodigal Son', 'Pearl of Price', 'Good Samaritan', and 'The Pharisee and The Jubilant'. Memorial plaques for the First World War are located on the west side, commemorating those who fell from the congregations of the east and south parishes, while a roll of honour for the Second World War is incorporated into a carved communion table.
The church is enclosed by boundary walls, railings, and gates, featuring dwarf walls with inset ironwork railings and gates, as well as semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.
Local climate
Boundary Walls, St Andrew's Church Of Scotland Parish Church, Queen Street receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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