Southend Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Church.

Southend Parish Church

WRENN ID
burning-pinnacle-mallow
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
NR 698 094
Coordinates
55.32526, -5.62944
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Southend Parish Church, designed by mason James Stirling in 1774, is a Georgian building with an oblong shape. It features harled walls, a gabled slate roof, and a belfry. The church has quoins and some pointed windows, along with a flat-roofed porch and other additions.

Inside, the church has a coombed ceiling and a gallery that extends along three sides.

Local climate

Southend Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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