Trinity Church, Seafield Street, Whitehills is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Church. 5 related planning applications.

Trinity Church, Seafield Street, Whitehills

WRENN ID
outer-lancet-river
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
OS grid reference
NJ 654 652
Coordinates
57.67562, -2.5801
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Trinity Church, located on Seafield Street in Whitehills, was constructed by Alexander Ross in 1879 as the Trinity United Presbyterian Church and was moved to its current site in 1925-1926. This Gothic-style church features a rectangular shape with a six-bay long street elevation made of dark rubble, accented by contrasting tooled and polished ashlar sandstone dressings.

The church has a projecting buttressed and gabled porch at the southeast corner, which includes a pointed-headed entrance and a plank door fitted with ornate cast-iron hinges. A slim two-stage angle clock tower is attached to the porch, topped with a conical slate roof. The front is illuminated by five pointed-headed windows, while the west gable boasts a large geometric traceried window. The north gable features a shaped pointed-headed window enclosing a hexafoil light, flanked by narrow side lights and adorned with coloured glazing. Lattice-pane glazing is used in other windows, and the building is topped with an apex cross and a slate roof with a tiled ridge. A single-storey vestry extends from the rear.

Inside, the church has a lofty interior with a timber braced rafter roof. The east wall features a cusped panelled pulpit at its centre, complete with a cusped and canopied backboard. The Communion table has a cusped panelled face, and the seating consists of plain pine pews.

Local climate

Trinity Church, Seafield Street, Whitehills 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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