Elgin South Parish Church, Moray Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Church. 5 related planning applications.
Elgin South Parish Church, Moray Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- stony-marble-sable
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Elgin South Parish Church, Moray Street, Elgin, IV30 1JH
- OS grid reference
- NJ 215 625
- Coordinates
- 57.6461, -3.31511
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Elgin South Parish Church, located on Moray Street in Elgin, was designed by A and W Reid and built between 1852 and 1854. This 1st pointed Gothic church features a 5-bay rectangular layout oriented north to south. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. It has a three-stage tower topped with a tooled facetted spire that includes lucarnes on alternate faces. The design incorporates stepped angle buttresses, with the entrance located under a pointed moulded head at the north side. The lower stage has small lancet windows, while the third stage features paired belfry openings with a clock above on each face. The gable ends are adorned with 2-light windows, outer buttresses, and crocketted finials. Each flank of the church is decorated with narrow cusped lancets, separated by buttresses, and topped with hoodmoulds. The roof is covered with slate.
Inside, the church has a braced rafter ceiling and a U-shaped gallery supported by slender hexagonal iron columns with plaster capitals. The gallery features a panelled balustrade with a Gothic motif and a painted plaster frieze of entwined leaves and buds. Additionally, a small church room from the later 19th century has been added to the south gable.
Local climate
Elgin South Parish Church, Moray Street, Elgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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