Brechin Cathedral stands on Church Lane in Brechin, in Angus. It was founded in the thirteenth century and was the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brechin until the Scottish Reformation. The style is Gothic. The west gable has a flamboyant window and a Gothic door, beside a massive square tower. Parts of the choir, the nave pillars and the clerestory survive.
A round tower beside it, built around the year 1000, is 86 feet (26.2 meters) high, and a hexagonal spire was added in the fourteenth century. A carving of the Crucifixion stands over its doorway. The church also has the eleventh-century Brechin hogback and St Mary's Stone.
Restorers caused damage in 1806, and John Honeyman oversaw a restoration completed in 1902. In 2021 the last service was held as a sanctified church. A trustee committee now oversees its care.
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