Harvest Centre (former St Giles Parish Church Hall), 10 Greyfriars Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 August 2016. Church hall.

Harvest Centre (former St Giles Parish Church Hall), 10 Greyfriars Street, Elgin

WRENN ID
rooted-cloister-aspen
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 August 2016
Type
Church hall
OS grid reference
NJ 217 627
Coordinates
57.64804, -3.31253
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Harvest Centre, formerly St Giles Parish Church Hall, was designed by John Wittet in 1897. This building is a double-height church hall in the Scots Baronial style, with a roughly rectangular plan. It is constructed from bullfaced stone and features crowstepped gables, with openings that mostly have roll-moulded surrounds. At the rear and east side, there are several single-storey outshots with piended roofs, dating from the late 19th century.

The principal elevation faces south and has a central entrance gable that is slightly advanced. The bays on either side of the gable feature a stone balustrade. To the left of the entrance gable is a curved bay with a datestone positioned between the windows. The entrance consists of a two-leaf timber door adorned with a decorative leaded fanlight, set within a shallow arched surround. This entrance is flanked by single windows, all of which are topped by a stepped hoodmould. Above the door is a six-light window with stone mullions and a transom, topped by a semicircular carved panel featuring a thistle. The gable is crowned with a Latin cross finial.

The windows exhibit various glazing patterns within timber frames, predominantly using coloured glass. The roof is covered with grey slates, clay ridge tiles, and ventilators, while the slating on the curved bay is arranged in a fishscale pattern.

The interior, as observed in 2016, features a double-height hall with ancillary rooms located at the rear and west side. The entrance lobby floor is laid with red quarry tiles bordered by black tiles. Throughout the building, there are panelled timber doors. The ancillary rooms have timber boarding up to dado height and simple cornicing. The main hall showcases arched-braced roof trusses resting on scrolled stone corbels, with vertically boarded timber forming a dado around the walls. A partition has been added to the gallery to create a first-floor office, while the original late 19th-century panelled timber balustrade and the columns supporting the gallery remain intact.

Local climate

Harvest Centre (former St Giles Parish Church Hall), 10 Greyfriars 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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