St Margaret's Rc Church, Chapel Street, Huntly is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Church. 2 related planning applications.

St Margaret's Rc Church, Chapel Street, Huntly

WRENN ID
burning-dormer-russet
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
Church
Address
St Margaret's Rc Church, Chapel Street, Huntly, AB54 8BS
OS grid reference
NJ 528 401
Coordinates
57.44938, -2.78749
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, built in 1834, is a rubble-built octagonal structure featuring lunette windows. The church has a tetrastyle pedimented ashlar front piece, which is topped by a three-stage tower that exhibits Spanish baroque characteristics, including console scrolls. The belfry's top stage has concave sides and is crowned with a console. Inside, the church boasts an impressive saucer-domed ceiling adorned with seven contemporary Spanish religious paintings, an altar piece, and stencilled decoration from around 1902. The church also houses a bell made by Mears in 1834.

Local climate

St Margaret's Rc Church, Chapel Street, Huntly receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 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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