Elgin High Church, South Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. 2 related planning applications.
Elgin High Church, South Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- strange-wattle-wagtail
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- Address
- Elgin High Church, South Street, Elgin, IV30 1JR
- OS grid reference
- NJ 215 626
- Coordinates
- 57.64718, -3.31614
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Hall at Elgin High Church, located on South Street in Elgin, was built in 1843. It is a large rectangular church oriented north to south, featuring advanced bays at the north and south gables. The structure is made of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. The Romanesque entrance is located on the return wall of the northern projection, and there are triple round-arched, shafted lancets on the north gable, along with clasping buttresses and two truncated pinnacles. The west flank has five simple round-headed lancets, a moulded string course, and parapet coping, with lattice glazing and a slate roof.
Inside, the church retains its original galleried interior and fittings. At the rear, there is a Church Hall designed by A and W Reid and Wittet, built between 1903 and 1904. This hall features tooled ashlar with rubble flanks and a frontage facing South Guildry Street.
Local climate
Elgin High Church, South 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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