St James's Church, St James' Road, Forfar is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980. Church.
St James's Church, St James' Road, Forfar
- WRENN ID
- riven-plinth-elm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1980
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NO 458 505
- Coordinates
- 56.64367, -2.88478
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St James's Church, located on St James' Road in Forfar, was designed by James Brewster from Dundee in 1835. The church features a Romanesque style with a rectangular plan, constructed from snecked rubble. The front has a three-window gable for the nave and one-window aisles, topped with a circular gable at the apex. The architectural details are archaeologically accurate for its period. The interior was recast in 1936, and a late Gothic hall was added around 1900 on the east side of the building.
Local climate
St James's Church, St James' Road, Forfar sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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