North Church, Church Road, Keith is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Church.

North Church, Church Road, Keith

WRENN ID
upper-gateway-winter
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NJ 432 507
Coordinates
57.54287, -2.94917
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

North Church, located on Church Road in Keith, was designed by A and W Reid and built between 1845 and 1846. This rectangular church features a west-facing entrance front made of coursed rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings. The entrance is a pointed-headed recess situated in a slightly advanced central bay, flanked by clasping buttresses that rise to a central projection resembling a tower. Atop this projection is an octagonal bellcote spire, which includes small lucarnes on alternate facets and an apex finial, along with pointed-headed louvred openings. The angle buttresses are capped with octagonal finials.

The church has five bays on the flanks, each illuminated by narrow pointed-headed windows, and there is a circular light in the east gable. Most windows feature leaded glazing, and the roof is covered with slate.

Inside, the church has a simple galleried layout. The gallery front is shaped with panelled detailing and is supported by slender cast-iron columns. The east end of the church has a renewed dado and panelling, along with a later pulpit.

Local climate

North Church, Church Road, Keith receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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