St Paul's Church, St Paul's Square, Perth is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1965. Church. 5 related planning applications.
St Paul's Church, St Paul's Square, Perth
- WRENN ID
- rooted-vault-laurel
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NO 115 236
- Coordinates
- 56.39653, -3.43481
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Paul's Church, located in St Paul's Square, Perth, was designed by John Paterson in 1807. This octagonal Gothic church, which has been disused since 2009, features a crenellated design and advanced single-bay sections on the south, east, west, and north sides. The northern section includes an inset five-stage steeple topped with a stone polygonal spire. The church is constructed of ashlar and has a base course and a crenellated parapet. Narrow rounded shafts at the outshot angles support round projections above. The pointed-arched window openings are adorned with moulded architraves.
The tower has a two-leaf timber entrance door on the north side and includes string courses. The crenellated parapet is present at the third stage, featuring angle round projections. There are clocks on all faces at the fourth stage. The church predominantly has three- and two-light windows with intersecting tracery, and some sections have small pane decorative coloured glass, while others are boarded. The roof is platformed and piended, covered with grey slates.
Local climate
St Paul's Church, St Paul's Square, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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