Old Parish Church, Longside is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971.
Old Parish Church, Longside
- WRENN ID
- second-terrace-larch
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NK 037 472
- Coordinates
- 57.51518, -1.93916
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Parish Church is a rectangular building dating back to around 1620, originally formed as a parish from Peterhead and Crimond. The church is constructed of rubble and has irregular window openings. The south wall features a double arched panel monument visible from the exterior. The west gable has a round arched doorway emphasized by red voussoirs. A fine birdcage bellcote with a cornice and gabled roof running east to west is a prominent feature. A skew on the southeast side and another on the southwest side are dated 1620. While the church is roofless, it retains a significant amount of original fabric. The church’s history is documented in the New History of Buchan, which suggests a date of 1637 for the bellcote.
Local climate
Old Parish Church, Longside 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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