St Peter's Roman Catholic Church And Presbytery, 30 St Peter Street, Peterhead is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1982. Church.
St Peter's Roman Catholic Church And Presbytery, 30 St Peter Street, Peterhead
- WRENN ID
- stranded-plaster-wren
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NK 131 461
- Coordinates
- 57.50579, -1.78263
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Peter's Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery, located at 30 St Peter Street in Peterhead, was built between 1850 and 1851. This building features an Early English, Pointed Gothic style and is designed in an L-plan. The exterior is constructed of harled rubble with ashlar dressings.
On the principal northwest elevation, the chapel has three lancet windows in the center, flanked by angle-buttresses with crocketted pinnacles at the corners. At the apex, there is a cross finial. To the right, there is a canted entrance bay with a swept gable leading to an angled porch, which also has a cross finial at its apex. The doorpiece is buttressed and pedimented. A later addition, a meeting hall, is located at the rear southeast elevation.
The building features timber frame windows, ashlar skews, a grey slate roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
St Peter's Roman Catholic Church And Presbytery, 30 St Peter Street, Peterhead receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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