Abbey Parish Church, West Abbey Street, Arbroath is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 September 1987. Church. 1 related planning application.
Abbey Parish Church, West Abbey Street, Arbroath
- WRENN ID
- white-courtyard-thrush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 September 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Abbey Parish Church, West Abbey Street, Arbroath, DD11 1EQ
- OS grid reference
- NO 643 412
- Coordinates
- 56.5615, -2.58173
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Abbey Parish Church, located on West Abbey Street in Arbroath, was designed by James MacLaren of Dundee between 1876 and 1878. The church incorporates and remodels a building from 1797, with a tower added to the north end of the new west front. The church is built in the Gothic style using red sandstone with polished dressings. The original structure has a rectangular plan and a gabled roof, with altered openings. There is a full-width addition to the west long wall facing West Abbey Street, which is shallow in plan and features a steep piended roof. The front has large traceried windows set within a shallow, advanced buttressed and pinnacled central gable. The square tower has chamfered angles, pointed openings, and a slated facetted and lucarned squat spire topped with a finial.
There is an iron-railed low boundary wall along West Abbey Street, complemented by gabletted gatepiers.
The church also includes two halls. The hall on East Abbey Street is a late Georgian single-storey structure with a piended roof and a symmetrical nine-bay front elevation, finished in painted ashlar with a slated roof. The hall to the south of the church is likely designed by MacLaren and features a gable with three stepped hood-moulded lights facing West Abbey Street.
Local climate
Abbey Parish Church, West Abbey Street, Arbroath sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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