King Edward Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. Church. 1 related planning application.

King Edward Parish Church

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 November 1972
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NJ 715 579
Coordinates
57.61049, -2.47754
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

King Edward Parish Church, designed by A & W Reid in Elgin in 1848, is a rectangular church with harled walls and gothic detailing, featuring tooled ashlar dressings and margins. The building is oriented east to west, with a west entrance gable that includes a slightly recessed pointed-headed door set within a shallow advanced saw-tooth gabled doorpiece. This entrance is flanked by narrow pointed-headed lancet windows with hoodmoulds. A substantial square belfry, made of tooled ashlar, projects from the front gable and has a panelled base, with each face featuring paired hoodmoulded louvred vents. The belfry is topped with a simple pyramidal stone roof, which has a small lucarne on each face and an apex finial.

The north and south elevations are each four bays long and are lit by hoodmoulded plate Y-traceried windows with vesicas. A vestry projects from the north gable. The church features lattice-pane leaded glazing, angle buttresses, and a slate roof.

Inside, the church has a plain interior with a three-sided gallery supported by slender painted cast-iron columns. The gallery front is embellished with moulded beading and fleu-de-lis detailing. There is a raised pulpit with a panelled back-board that is accessed by steps, and a Communion Table from 1914.

The church is enclosed by a low coped rubble wall, with the southwest angle featuring a low curved and stepped mural granite war memorial, designed in the style of Dr William Kelly, which is inscribed with the names of the fallen.

Local climate

King Edward Parish Church receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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