St Catherine's Episcopal Church, George Street, Blairgowrie is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church.
St Catherine's Episcopal Church, George Street, Blairgowrie
- WRENN ID
- small-facade-evening
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NO 177 453
- Coordinates
- 56.59284, -3.34101
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Catherine's Episcopal Church, located on George Street in Blairgowrie, was designed by John Henderson from Edinburgh and completed in 1842. This rectangular-plan, aisless church features a three-bay nave and chancel, constructed from squared rubble with ashlar margins and quoin strips, and includes base and eaves courses. The church has a Tudor-arched doorway and pointed arch windows with tracery, complemented by hoodmoulds with label stops and stone mullions.
On the northwest elevation, there is a bay to the right of the center that includes a gabled stone porch. This porch has steps leading up to a studded timber door adorned with decorative ironwork hinges, and a weathered panel in the gablehead. Flanking this entrance are two tall, two-light traceried windows, and a re-cut panel that reads 'ST CATHARINE'S CHURCH 1842'. To the outer left, there is a lower gabled bay with a projecting traceried window.
The southwest elevation, facing Brown Street, features a broad gabled bay with five tall lancet windows and a stone cross finial. There is a slightly lower adjoining house on the outer right and a deep base course extending from a low boundary wall on the left.
On the northeast elevation, there is a gabled chancel projection topped with a stone cross finial, which includes a hoodmoulded three-light traceried stained glass window. To the right, there is a slightly set-back lower bay with a panelled timber door below a blind shield, and a small lean-to structure in the re-entrant angle to the left. The church has replacement multi-pane diamond-pattern leaded glazing with coloured margins and figurative panels in the east tripartite window, and is roofed with grey slates and stepped ashlar-coped skews.
Inside, the church features fixed timber pews and a four-centre arched wooden ceiling with ribs, along with a moulded chancel arch. The polygonal timber pulpit sits on a stone plinth and is decorated with linen-carved panels, an inscribed brass band, and narrow floreate-carved panels. Mural monuments include a carved panel depicting 'The Ascension' and a brass panel commemorating 'Marjory Davis', the wife of the sixth incumbent and first rector, who died in 1894.
The church is enclosed by low saddleback-coped squared rubble boundary walls that incorporate decorative cast-iron railings and a two-leaf gate.
Local climate
St Catherine's Episcopal Church, George Street, Blairgowrie sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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