St Mary's Church, Main Street, Aberfoyle is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 September 1979. Church. 3 related planning applications.

St Mary's Church, Main Street, Aberfoyle

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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
Constituency
Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 September 1979
Type
Church
Address
St Mary's Church, Main Street, Aberfoyle, FK8 3UJ
OS grid reference
NN 523 010
Coordinates
56.17878, -4.37963
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Mary's Church, built between 1893 and 1894, was designed by James Miller in a simple Gothic Arts and Crafts style. It has a near-rectangular plan with a deep rubble base topped by a stringcourse, harled above with red sandstone dressings and small lancet windows. The church is situated on a wooded knoll above the main street of Aberfoyle, giving it a picturesque setting. It remains largely unaltered and holds streetscape value as a small rural church.

The church features a long rectangular aisleless nave oriented east-west, with the principal south elevation facing the main street below. This five-bay elevation includes two gabled projections: a small timber-framed porch with cusped timber-framed windows on the far left, and a larger projection to the left of the chancel bay, which contains a simple plate tracery window with two lancets and a roundel above, housing the organ chamber. Above the chancel arch is a gable-roofed open belfry.

The west gable has a plate-tracery window with three lancets and a roundel above, while the east (chancel) gable features a segmentally arched rectangular window with four lancet lights. The rear (north) elevation is intentionally plain, with five bays and a lean-to roofed vestry projecting from the left side.

Inside, the church is accessed through a two-leaf timber-panelled and glazed door with leaded quarries and a fleur-de-lys motif at the center. Some windows contain 20th-century stained glass. The interior is plastered and features a four-bay arch-braced king post roof, with the ceiling lined by timber spars. The carved oak reredos, installed in the 1950s, is dated 1683. There is a circular stone pulpit pierced with cusped Gothic arches from 1899, and timber pews are present throughout.

Local climate

St Mary's Church, Main Street, Aberfoyle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,630 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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