Greyfriars' Church, Convent Of Mercy, Abbey Street, Elgin is a Grade A listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Chapel.
Greyfriars' Church, Convent Of Mercy, Abbey Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- veiled-newel-fern
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- NJ 219 627
- Coordinates
- 57.64792, -3.3094
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Greyfriars' Church, located at the Convent of Mercy on Abbey Street in Elgin, dates from the late 15th century and was restored in 1896 by architect John Kinross. The church has an oblong shape and is aisless, oriented east to west. It features large Y-tracery windows at the end gables and narrower windows along the sides, with three small ogee-headed windows positioned high at the east end of the south wall. The structure is built of random rubble with ashlar dressings, and it has a moulded eaves course topped with a cast-iron fretted frieze. The roof is made of Caithness slate.
Inside, the church contains all original fittings from the 1896 restoration, including a barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling, a large rood screen, and carved oak choir stalls. There are also 18th-century grave slabs belonging to the King family of Lesmurdie.
Local climate
Greyfriars' Church, Convent Of Mercy, Abbey 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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