Inveraray Parish Church is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 August 1966. Church. 1 related planning application.
Inveraray Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- tired-soffit-hemlock
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1966
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NN 095 084
- Coordinates
- 56.23016, -5.07337
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Inveraray Parish Church, built around 1800-1805 by Robert Mylne, is a Georgian-style building designed to accommodate separate Gaelic and English-speaking congregations under one roof, divided by a solid partition. The church features harled walls with dressed face-work and a gabled slate roof, with two segmental-headed windows on each side. Each end of the building has a pedimented facade, showcasing three Palladian windows above a Classical doorway that includes half-columns and an entablature, flanked by black segmental-headed windows. Slender columns and half-columns are positioned at each corner.
On the south facade, there is a bell that was re-cast in 1728 by Robert Maxwell of Edinburgh, presented by Archibald Campbell of Stonefield, and a clock is located on the north facade. The church originally had a central steeple, which was removed in 1941.
The interior of Glenaray Church was converted into a Church Hall in 1957. The interior of Inveraray Church features a gallery on three sides and was refurbished in 1898, showcasing a notable pulpit, canopy, pews, and font crafted by local artisans. It was redecorated between 1952 and 1953.
Local climate
Inveraray Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,950 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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