Coll Parish Church (Church Of Scotland) is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 May 2008. Church.
Coll Parish Church (Church Of Scotland)
- WRENN ID
- tired-garret-soot
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 May 2008
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NM 224 573
- Coordinates
- 56.62588, -6.52769
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Coll Parish Church, attributed to Robert Robertson and built in 1907, is a 4-bay, rectangular-plan church featuring buttresses, a square entrance tower, and a small piended vestry at the northeast corner. The church is constructed of rubble stonework with rounded stone quoins around the window margins. It has a base course, a dentil band, and a crenellated parapet. The tower includes corner bartizans and a stone cruciform apex finial on the gable. The entrance door is a pointed arch, flanked by narrow lucarne windows, while pointed arch windows and timber louvered belfry ventilators are present on the tower.
The vestry has square-paned margined leaded windows and smaller lucarned windows, while the main windows feature modern fixed timber plate glass casements. The entrance doors are two-leaf and timber-boarded. The roof is covered with small grey slates, and there are stone skews and a stone stack on the vestry with plain clay cans. The church also has cast-iron rainwater goods.
Inside, the impressive timber roof structure is a dominant feature, consisting of five shallow arched trusses supported by timber corbels, with three level tie beams between them, all adorned with pointed trefoil arched braces. Curved herringbone panel detailing extends to the corbel stops. The interior includes tongue and groove timber panelling to dado height, twelve rows of timber pews with ornately carved ends, a timber pulpit, a communion table, and a font. The entrance porch is finished with quarry tiles, and there is a corner chimney piece in the vestry.
Local climate
Coll Parish Church (Church Of Scotland) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,740 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 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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