St James' Chapel, Chapel Hill, Cruden is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1982. Church. 2 related planning applications.
St James' Chapel, Chapel Hill, Cruden
- WRENN ID
- kindled-threshold-kestrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1982
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St James' Chapel, Chapel Hill, Cruden, AB42 0SF
- OS grid reference
- NK 068 356
- Coordinates
- 57.41105, -1.88782
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St James' Chapel, located on Chapel Hill in Cruden, was designed by William Hay and built between 1842 and 1843. It is originally a six-bay buttressed rectangle featuring lancet windows. The chapel has a slim western tower topped with gablets and a pinnacled spire. The chancel was added in 1876 and includes an eastern end with three lancets. The structure is made of pinned granite rubble. Inside, the chapel has a plain interior and stained glass created by Wailes. It also features an early font, which has a later I.H.S. vesica added. The chapel houses a bell made by J. Taylor in 1843.
Local climate
St James' Chapel, Chapel Hill, Cruden receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% 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 0.3°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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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