Skene Parish Church, Kirkton Of Skene is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Church.

Skene Parish Church, Kirkton Of Skene

WRENN ID
slow-kitchen-raven
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NJ 802 076
Coordinates
57.1593, -2.3275
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Skene Parish Church, located in Kirkton of Skene, was designed by William and Andrew Clerk in 1801 and features a Gothick style. The church has a rectangular plan and is harled with margins, topped by a piend roof. It retains its original glazing and has two windows on both the east and west sides, along with a central circular window and doorway. The west frontage is particularly well-finished, featuring pilastered centre mullions. The south frontage has four windows, with the central section slightly advanced and adorned with a gable quatrefoil and a bellcote, which were added during repairs in 1840 by architect John Smith. A session room, dated 1884, was built in the style of the original church.

Inside, the church was originally designed in a U-plan with a central pulpit but was later remodelled to include a west gallery, which features original Roman Doric columns and a reused gallery front, completed by G. Bennet Mitchell in 1932. The interior also boasts a wood ceiling with a cavetto cornice, and the church was originally constructed by Mowat Bell in 1735.

Local climate

Skene Parish Church, Kirkton Of Skene receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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