St Ninian's Church, Bank Street, Brechin is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Church.
St Ninian's Church, Bank Street, Brechin
- WRENN ID
- peeling-tallow-owl
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NO 599 602
- Coordinates
- 56.73235, -2.65584
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Ninian's Church, located on Bank Street in Brechin, was built between 1875 and 1876 by architect William Leiper from Glasgow. This church showcases a tall and simple design in the distinctive Normandy Gothic style. It is constructed from snecked rubble with polished dressings and features five bays that are aisled without a clerestory. The gable front is flanked by transeptal features that contain stairs and an octagonal spirelet on the left, which has an open top stage.
The entrance is marked by a boldly moulded doorpiece, with two windows above it that have two orders of shafts and sculptured capitals. A vesica window is positioned above these, topped with a finial at the apex. The transeptal features are flush and include two-light plain circle plate tracery, while the rest of the nave is adorned with twin lancets. At the rear, there is a lower transverse hall that features an over-arched twin lancet. The church is topped with a slated roof that has bracketed eaves, and there is one dormer ventilator in each bay near the ridge.
Local climate
St Ninian's Church, Bank Street, Brechin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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