Glen Tanar Church is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1972. Church, burial ground, boundary wall.
Glen Tanar Church
- WRENN ID
- haunted-belfry-ebony
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1972
- Type
- Church, burial ground, boundary wall
- OS grid reference
- NO 476 983
- Coordinates
- 57.07301, -2.86557
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glen Tanar Church is a 17th-century building featuring a crowstepped west gable and remains of its foundations. The structure is made of pink and grey granite rubble. On the west elevation, there is an infilled window with chamfered reveals, while the east elevation includes a tombstone set into the wall. Surrounding the church is a rectangular-plan granite rubble boundary wall topped with rubble coping. There is a datestone to the right of the iron gate in the south wall that reads "18.1884". The site also contains a variety of tombstones.
Local climate
Glen Tanar Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 80 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 57 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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