St Oran's Church Of Scotland, Connel is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Church.

St Oran's Church Of Scotland, Connel

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NM 914 342
Coordinates
56.45413, -5.38642
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Oran's Church of Scotland in Connel was built in 1888 and is designed in the Gothic Revival style. The church has a cruciform shape and is constructed from rock-faced sneck rubble. It features a skew-gabled roof and is adorned with lancet windows and pointed traceried windows. There is a gabled porch and a central tower topped with a corbelled parapet. Inside, the church boasts a good interior with an open timbered ceiling.

Local climate

St Oran's Church Of Scotland, Connel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,220 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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