Rathven Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Church. 1 related planning application.
Rathven Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-basalt-pine
- 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
- Address
- Rathven Parish Church, AB56 4DW
- OS grid reference
- NJ 444 656
- Coordinates
- 57.67766, -2.93315
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Rathven Parish Church, dated 1794, underwent repairs in 1823 by William Robertson, with a porch and vestry added in 1874, and alterations and re-casting by R M Fulton in 1932. This simple rectangular church features a four-bay south elevation, with harled walls and tooled ashlar margins and dressings. The south side has regular round-headed keystoned windows with blocked imposts, including a southwest window with a panelled gallery transom. There is a similar single gallery window in both the east and west gables, along with three round-headed windows added in 1932 on the rear elevation. A bellcote is located at the apex of the west gable, with a finial at the east, and the church has a slate roof.
The single-storey vestry, which has two bays and is dated 1874, extends from the west gable and is fronted by a gabled porch that provides access to both the church and the vestry. It features an end stack and also has a slate roof.
Inside, the church was re-cast in 1932 and includes fluted wooden columns, possibly with a cast-iron core, and a raised and fielded panelled gallery front that was reused from the 1794 church. The pulpit, added in 1932, faces the organ.
Local climate
Rathven Parish Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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