Tomintoul Parish Church And Burial Ground, Main Street, Tomintoul is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. 4 related planning applications.
Tomintoul Parish Church And Burial Ground, Main Street, Tomintoul
- WRENN ID
- other-screen-furze
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1987
- Address
- Tomintoul Parish Church And Burial Ground, Main Street, Tomintoul, AB37 9EX
- OS grid reference
- NJ 166 190
- Coordinates
- 57.25464, -3.38296
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tomintoul Parish Church, built in 1826, is an ecclesiastical building situated on Main Street, Tomintoul, with a burial ground to the rear. The church was substantially altered and re-fronted in 1900 by John Robertson of Inverness. It is constructed of coursed rubble with tooled dressings, and rubble flanks and rear. The street frontage features four buttressed bays and a gabled projecting porch rising the full height on the southwest side, including a pointed doorway in the re-entrant angle. Pinnacled buttresses mark the angles, and the church has 1900 tracery and glazing in all its windows. A stumpy, birdcage-style belfry from the original 1826 construction sits at the apex of the north gable, under a Tomintoul slate roof.
The interior was re-cast and re-modelled in an ornate Gothic style. Notable features include a carved oak communion table, reredos, and pulpit. There is some stained glass within the church, with work by Messrs Garvie of Aberdeen. The burial ground is enclosed by high rubble walls. The quoad sacra parish of Tomintoul was formed in 1833.
Local climate
Tomintoul Parish Church And Burial Ground, Main Street, Tomintoul sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 81 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 62 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 — 4 applications
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