Lowson Memorial Church, Montrose Road, Forfar is a Grade A listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Church.

Lowson Memorial Church, Montrose Road, Forfar

WRENN ID
inner-spindle-coral
Grade
A
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 464 508
Coordinates
56.64666, -2.87417
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Lowson Memorial Church, located on Montrose Road in Forfar, was designed by Marshall Mackenzie of Aberdeen and built between 1912 and 1914. This late Scots Gothic church features a cruciform layout and is constructed from red snecked rubble, with architectural details inspired by various sources including Elgin, Aberdeen Greyfriars, and St. Monance. The church has a five-bay nave with aisles, although the western bay is blind and includes a vaulted south porch that houses the narthex and an organ chamber above. The transepts do not have aisles and the presbytery is a single bay. A low central tower topped with a squat spire completes the structure. Inside, the church showcases round-arched arcades supported by circular piers and a waggon roof that is groined at the clerestory windows. Notably, the stained glass is of outstanding interest and was created by Douglas Strachan.

Local climate

Lowson Memorial Church, Montrose 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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