Menmuir Parish Church is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Church. 7 related planning applications.

Menmuir Parish Church

WRENN ID
stark-pinnacle-khaki
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 June 1971
Type
Church
Address
Menmuir Parish Church, DD9 7RN
OS grid reference
NO 534 643
Coordinates
56.76852, -2.76381
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Menmuir Parish Church is a former parish church built in 1842 by David Smith, which incorporates a burial vault dated 1639. The church has a rectangular plan and is constructed from stugged, squared, and coursed red sandstone with margins. It features a base course and shallow pointed-arched openings with chamfered arises. The windows include 2-light and Y-traceried designs, with those on the north, west, and south elevations having stone transoms. The east gable is topped with a cruciform finial, while the west gable has a window flanked by entrances that contain 2-leaf panelled timber doors. There is a square bellcote with a finial at the apex of the gable.

The north elevation includes the burial vault of the Carnegys of Balnamoon, positioned off-centre to the left, featuring an elliptical arch with a heraldic panel above and later inscribed stone plaques. This area is enclosed by a low sandstone ashlar wall with a moulded cope, topped by decorative cast iron railings, and a taller rubble wall to the east with memorial plaques. The south elevation has a carved memorial panel to the left, set within a gableted frame, and features a carved angel head at the apex.

The church has a pitched roof covered with grey slates, saddlebacked-coped skews, and moulded skewputts. The interior, seen in 2012, includes a coombed and ribbed ceiling with corbels and foliated bosses. There is a raked timber gallery on the west wall, supported by painted cast iron columns, with cusped carving on the balustrade. The interior was refurnished around 1947, which included the addition of a timber pulpit.

Local climate

Menmuir Parish Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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