Tarbert Parish Church, Campbeltown Road, Tarbert is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Tarbert Parish Church, Campbeltown Road, Tarbert
- WRENN ID
- sacred-gravel-sorrel
- Grade
- B
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NR 862 685
- Coordinates
- 55.86264, -5.41723
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tarbert Parish Church, built in 1886, is a Gothic Revival structure located on Campbeltown Road in Tarbert. The church has an oblong plan with an aisle on the north side and features a crown steeple at the northeast corner. It is constructed of rubble laid in courses and has slate roofs. The exterior includes buttresses and rounded-headed lancet windows. The tower is designed in four stages, topped with a crenellated parapet and corner pinnacles from which the crown rises. A clock made by Gilbert & Co. of London and a bell by Munro Thomson & Co. of Glasgow, both dated 1886, are notable features. The entrance has a moulded round-headed doorway that is accessed by steps.
Inside, the church boasts an open timber ceiling, a gallery at the east end, and an arcade on the north side. Adjacent to the church is a hall with a timber ceiling of the same design.
Local climate
Tarbert Parish Church, Campbeltown Road, Tarbert sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,800 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 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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