Free Church, South Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Free Church, South Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-doorway-mist
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NJ 214 626
- Coordinates
- 57.64707, -3.31712
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Free Church on South Street in Elgin was designed by architect Mr. Bisset and built between 1862 and 1863. It features a Gothic style and has a rectangular plan. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The gable end facing South Street includes paired doorways that are recessed under a moulded Gothic arch, which is supported by nook shafts and a centre colonette on the trumeau. Above the doorways, there are three trefoil lights in the tympanum, a string course at the impose level, and six arcaded lancets, two of which are blind, with nook shafts and a continuous hoodmould. A louvred bull's eye window is situated above, topped by a crocketted finial at the apex. The flanks facing Hall Place have five bays, featuring paired Gothic lancets and alternating buttresses. The building is further supported by angle buttresses and has a steeply pitched slate roof with lattice glazing. Inside, there is a simple Gothic galleried design, although the gallery is now divided by an internal screen.
Local climate
Free 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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