Oathlaw Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Church.

Oathlaw Parish Church

WRENN ID
crumbling-loggia-candle
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 475 561
Coordinates
56.69431, -2.85718
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Oathlaw Parish Church is a small, oblong Gothic building constructed in 1815, featuring rubble walls and a slate roof with crowstepped gables. It has a battlemented bell tower and a later addition of a session house. The church contains a 15th-century tombstone and inset stones dated 1673 and 1758. The north wall is finished with grey wet dashes.

Local climate

Oathlaw Parish Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 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 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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