Church, High Street, Fochabers is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1988. Church.
Church, High Street, Fochabers
- WRENN ID
- last-porch-sorrel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1988
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NJ 347 586
- Coordinates
- 57.61341, -3.09351
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a church located on High Street in Fochabers, designed by D and R MacMillan, Aberdeen, in 1900. It features a Gothic style, constructed from bullfaced rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The principal south-facing gabled frontage includes a square tower with a spire at the southeast angle. There is an off-centre pointed-headed recessed entrance at the base of the tower, which has shallow gabled detailing above the door.
The tall, unstaged tower is supported by clasping buttresses and features paired louvred lancets and clock faces at the upper level. It has a corbelled wallhead with a crenellated parapet and angle pinnacles, topped by an octagonal facetted spire with a cast-iron weathervane. A large geometric tracery window is located in the center at the base of the southwest gallery stair projection. The five-bay buttressed flanks are lit by paired hoodmoulded lancets with lattice-pane glazing.
The roof is slate with a red tiled ridge and apex finials. The interior has been remodelled and is currently used as a shop and museum.
Local climate
Church, High Street, Fochabers 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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