St Kentigern's Episcopal Church, Braemar Road, Ballater is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Church.

St Kentigern's Episcopal Church, Braemar Road, Ballater

WRENN ID
rooted-gable-yarrow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NO 368 959
Coordinates
57.05047, -3.04266
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Kentigern's Episcopal Church, designed by Marshall Mackenzie in 1907, is a single-storey gabled church located on Braemar Road in Ballater. The church features a nave and a north aisle, set within its own grounds and surrounded by a boundary wall. It is constructed from pink and grey squared and snecked granite, with grey granite surrounds and a base course. The eaves are adorned with rounded dentils, and the church predominantly has stained glass windows.

The south elevation includes a gabled entrance porch on the far left, which features a round arch doorway with a cavetto hoodmoulding and a two-leaf boarded timber door. An angled buttress to the right indicates the internal line of the sanctuary. Decorative crosses are present on the west and east gable points, as well as on the coping over the sanctuary line. The church has predominantly slim lancet windows, which may be single, paired, or arranged in groups of three. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there is a raised skew and a wallhead stack to the northeast.

The boundary wall is made of random granite rubble with large rectangular coping, and it is low on the west, south, and east sides.

Inside, the original interior decoration remains largely intact. There is an arcade to the north featuring three round arches on circular piers, and a small chapel in the north aisle. The ceiling is barrel vaulted and made of timber. The church contains oak furnishings, including pews, an altar, a pulpit, and a lectern, along with wooden parquet flooring. The timber dado around the nave and aisle is complemented by squared, coursed granite as the dado in the sanctuary. The church also features 20th-century stained glass and an octagonal pedestal baptismal font located in the northwest corner, which retains its original working pulley mechanism for lifting the font cover.

Local climate

St Kentigern's Episcopal Church, Braemar Road, Ballater sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 87 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 63 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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