St Alkmund's Parish Church, Kennethmont is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971.
St Alkmund's Parish Church, Kennethmont
- WRENN ID
- former-remnant-violet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NJ 540 294
- Coordinates
- 57.35355, -2.76609
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Alkmund's Parish Church consists of a rubble-walled enclosure with a retaining wall marking the railway line. Within the enclosure is a plain, square burial vault built in a Gothic style by the Leith-Hay family, along with fragments of an old church that has been significantly altered over time. The churchyard contains a collection of gravestones dating from the 17th century onwards. The statutory address for the site is Old Churchyard of Kennethmont.
Local climate
St Alkmund's Parish Church, Kennethmont 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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