St Matthew's Church, Tay Street, Perth is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1965. Church. 6 related planning applications.
St Matthew's Church, Tay Street, Perth
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-landing-brook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1965
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St Matthew's Church, Tay Street, Perth, PH1 5LQ
- OS grid reference
- NO 120 235
- Coordinates
- 56.39616, -3.42629
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Matthew's Church on Tay Street in Perth was designed by John Honeyman and completed in 1871. It features a first pointed architectural style with a three-aisle layout and a tall tower and spire that rises 212 feet above the river. The tower is flanked by stairhalls at the transepts. Inside, the church has a five-bay nave and a galleried interior supported by cast-iron columns. A prominent rose window is located at the west end of the church.
Local climate
St Matthew's Church, Tay Street, Perth sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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