Kilfinichen Church, Kilfinichen Bay, Mull is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Church, house.
Kilfinichen Church, Kilfinichen Bay, Mull
- WRENN ID
- south-rubble-cream
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1980
- Type
- Church, house
- OS grid reference
- NM 492 285
- Coordinates
- 56.3828, -6.06413
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kilfinichen Church, located in Kilfinichen Bay on the Isle of Mull, was built in 1804 and underwent repairs in 1828. It was later altered and converted into a residential dwelling in 1998. This former parish church features a gabled Gothic design with a transept on the south side and an additional structure on the east gable that now serves as part of the house. The building is constructed of rubble and includes a bird-cage belfry on the west gable, which has moulded columns, a stepped cap, and a ball-finial at the apex. There are pointed windows with Y tracery and leaded stained glass, three on each side, adorned with thistle motifs on the south elevation. The roof is covered with slate, and there is a chimney addition on the south pitch. The conversion to a dwelling house included later timber shutters and bargeboards.
Inside, the church features exposed rubble walls. The interior has been remodelled for residential use, including a staircase with timber bannisters and balustrades leading to the upper floor. A rubble chimneypiece has been inserted into the west gable wall.
The boundary walls consist of a rectangular plan extending to the shoreline, featuring a low rubble wall with rubble piers connected by wrought-iron railings.
Local climate
Kilfinichen Church, Kilfinichen Bay, Mull sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,210 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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