Benvie Church is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Church ruin.
Benvie Church
- WRENN ID
- tilted-trefoil-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- Church ruin
- OS grid reference
- NO 328 314
- Coordinates
- 56.47038, -3.09176
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Benvie Church features a west gable that may date back to before the Reformation. The churchyard is rectangular in shape, with its wall rebuilt in the late 19th century. The west gable of the church is the only part that remains and is completely covered in creeper. The churchyard contains tombstones from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, along with a rubble wall that has inset stones on the west side.
Local climate
Benvie Church receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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