Free Church, Taybridge Road, Aberfeldy is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1981. Church hall. 1 related planning application.

Free Church, Taybridge Road, Aberfeldy

WRENN ID
ruined-grate-fern
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 June 1981
Type
Church hall
Address
Free Church, Taybridge Road, Aberfeldy, PH15 2BH
OS grid reference
NN 854 490
Coordinates
56.61956, -3.8683
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Free Church on Taybridge Road in Aberfeldy was built in 1843 and features a two-stage spired tower and a rectangular church hall, designed in a simple Tudor Gothic style. The structure is made of chlorite-slate rubble with stone cills and squared rubble, accented with contrasting ashlar dressings. Architectural details include hoodmoulds, voussoirs, and two-stage diagonal buttresses.

The tower's first stage has a hoodmoulded panelled timber door with a shaped plate glass fanlight and a steep pediment on the west side. There are paired blocked lights on the south side and large timber-louvered openings on each face above. The reduced second stage features a clock on each face and splayed angles, with a band course above that leads to a pedimented cornice and a ribbed lead spire topped with a decorative cast-iron weathervane.

The church hall has a west elevation with four bays, featuring tall windows in the outer bays. The penultimate bay on the left has a small window beneath a catslide roof, adjacent to the tower. The south elevation is gabled, showcasing two tall pointed-arch windows flanking a low link section to the smaller hall. The east (rear) elevation has been altered, with harled bays on the right and center, and flat-roofed bays on the left.

The interior of the church hall has been modernized. The smaller hall has a gabled west entrance elevation with a two-leaf boarded timber door and a margined fanlight in the left bay, along with a hoodmoulded pointed-arched window to the right and a small glazed oculus in the center. The east (rear) elevation features a piend roof with two large windows. Inside, there is a good decorative scheme, including some boarded dadoes and architraved doors. A marble memorial tablet commemorates 'REV DONALD ROBERT CLARKE', who was the pastor for 40 years and died on May 13, 1883.

Local climate

Free Church, Taybridge Road, Aberfeldy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 79 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 56 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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