Forest Of Birse Church is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 2000. Church.
Forest Of Birse Church
- WRENN ID
- stranded-bronze-elm
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 2000
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NO 532 905
- Coordinates
- 57.00368, -2.77066
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Forest of Birse Church is a single-storey, three-bay, rectangular-plan plain gothic church built in 1891. It is constructed from coursed granite rubble with tooled dressings and features pointed-arched openings.
The entrance elevation is asymmetrical, with a gabled porch that projects to the right. It has a two-leaf boarded timber door with decorative hinges, accessed by three stone steps, and an iron finial at the apex. There is a window in the centre bay and another in the bay to the left.
The northeast elevation has a gabled design with a tall central window flanked by two slightly smaller windows, and a finial at the apex. The northwest elevation is blank, while the southwest elevation features a simple rose window in the centre.
The church has predominantly rectangular-pane leaded and stained glass windows. The roof is made of grey slate with a tiled ridge, and there are stone skews with blocked skewputts. The southwest gable has a coped gablehead stack with an octagonal can, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Inside, there is a small porch leading to a rectangular-plan nave. The interior features boarded timber below the dado, a boarded timber roof with timber trusses and moulded timber drip stones, and boarded timber pews with decorative ends.
Local climate
Forest Of Birse Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 77 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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