Sandbank Parish Church is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 March 2007. Church. 1 related planning application.

Sandbank Parish Church

WRENN ID
fallen-cupola-bone
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 March 2007
Type
Church
Address
Sandbank Parish Church, PA23 8PX
OS grid reference
NS 162 803
Coordinates
55.98066, -4.94705
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Sandbank Parish Church, dated 1868, is a Gothic church designed in a T-plan with a later hall extension that forms a rough L-plan. The church features a distinctive cylindrical tower and a principal southwest gable elevation that includes a hoodmoulded triple lancet window with trefoil windows below. It is constructed of pointed stone with tooled red sandstone dressings, and has a base course. The southwest elevation has corner buttresses, a shield at the gablehead, and a finial at the apex. To the right, there is a gabled porch with a segmental-arched doorway that has a two-leaf timber boarded door. The cylindrical tower is located at the re-entrant angle and has four roundels set above a moulded string course, a belfry ring with twelve arches, and a tall candle snuffer roof. Adjoining the northwest elevation is a lean-to vestry featuring trefoil-headed windows and a timber boarded door. The church has ashlar-coped skews and is roofed with graded grey Scottish slate, with banded fishscale slating on the tower. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

Inside, the church has stained glass in the windows on the north and south walls, timber panelling to the dado, and an open-framed timber roof structure.

Local climate

Sandbank Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,830 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 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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