Church Of Dysart, Glenorchy is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Church.
Church Of Dysart, Glenorchy
- WRENN ID
- last-cobalt-weasel
- Grade
- A
- 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
- NN 167 275
- Coordinates
- 56.40423, -4.97106
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Church of Dysart in Glenorchy was built in 1811 and designed by James Elliot in a Gothick style. It is an octagonal structure with harled walls and a pyramidal slated roof. The church features pinnacled buttresses and pointed windows adorned with hood-mouldings. On one side, there is a square tower that consists of four stages, with string courses, a bell, a clock, and a pointed doorway. Inside the church, there is a flat ceiling and a loft supported by a wooden colonnade on three sides. The interior also includes mural tablets dedicated to the Campbells of Glenorchy, Earls of Breadalbane.
Local climate
Church Of Dysart, Glenorchy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,090 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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