Parish Church, Seafield Terrace, Portsoy is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Parish Church, Seafield Terrace, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- stony-attic-candle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church, Seafield Terrace, Portsoy, AB45 2QB
- OS grid reference
- NJ 586 659
- Coordinates
- 57.6811, -2.6943
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Parish Church on Seafield Terrace in Portsoy was built in 1844 and remodeled in 1870, designed by architect J Russell Mackenzie from Aberdeen. The church features coursed dark rubble with contrasting tooled sandstone ashlar dressings. It has a rectangular shape with a south-facing entrance gable that is buttressed and a spire located at the southwest angle. The main entrance includes a pointed arch doorway, which is divided by a slender pilastered trumeau, and has paired lights above the transom, along with a pair of chevron-planked doors. Above the entrance, there is a wheel window that fills the gable, with the central entrance flanked by small shoulder-arched lights, each having a dated lintel. The slightly advanced square tower, added in 1870, features stepped diagonal buttresses and rises to an octagonal facetted spire from the second stage. The base of the spire has pointed-arched, louvred openings on each face and alternating pinnacle-capped buttresses, with lucarnes in the upper stages of the facetted spire, which is topped with a cast-iron finial.
The east elevation of the church is lit by three square-headed three-light windows with lattice-pane glazing. There is a side entrance set back to the west that leads to a parish room, connecting the church with the adjacent manse. The roofs are covered with slate.
Inside, the church has an aisled and galleried layout with a timber braced roof. The aisle arcade is supported by tapering cast-iron cluster columns, and there is an organ located in the gallery. The pulpit is positioned against the north gable wall, with a stained glass wheel window above it. Additionally, there are two stained glass windows from around 1920 by Walter J Pearce of Manchester located to the west.
The church is enclosed by low coped rubble walls that separate the site from the road and continue with the manse wall. The entrance is flanked by bullfaced piers and is closed by a pair of cast-iron gates. There are also rubble walls on the east and north sides, which continue around the manse to the west.
Local climate
Parish Church, Seafield Terrace, Portsoy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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