Tarves Parish Church, Kirkbrae, Tarves is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.
Tarves Parish Church, Kirkbrae, Tarves
- WRENN ID
- patient-cobalt-mist
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NJ 869 311
- Coordinates
- 57.37102, -2.2194
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tarves Parish Church, located on Kirkbrae in Tarves, was built in 1798 and features a plain rectangular design measuring 75 feet by 39 feet 7 inches, constructed from ashlar granite with cherry cocking, except for the rubble northern wall. The south wall has four round arched windows, while each gable has a door and an arched window. A simple ball-capped birdcage bellcote is situated on the west gable. The porch and vestry are built from rubble and have crow-stepped gables, and there is an organ chamber apse at the third south window, designed by James Cobban. Inside, there is a well-preserved original horseshoe gallery, pews, and a fine pulpit dating from around 1825, along with a tie-barred ceiling. Some of the glazing is partly original, and the church features a bell by J. Warner from 1855.
Local climate
Tarves Parish Church, Kirkbrae, Tarves receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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