Hall, High Street, Bowmore, Islay is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 October 1991. Church.
Hall, High Street, Bowmore, Islay
- WRENN ID
- muted-plinth-ridge
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1991
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NR 313 597
- Coordinates
- 55.75611, -6.28401
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a free church located on High Street in Bowmore, Islay, and is believed to have been designed by Campbell Douglas of Glasgow, constructed in 1860. It sits on a previously undeveloped site at the edge of the 18th century planned town.
Architecturally, the church is designed in the Gothic style and features a rectangular plan with four bays and a gabled roof. A striking rose window is positioned in the south gable above a low, asymmetrically placed vestry, while a gabled porch is located near the north end of the east flank wall. The flanks are adorned with lancet windows. The building is constructed of rubble with imported ashlar dressings, and it includes polychrome rubble detailing around the arches and the encircling rose window. The church retains its early glazing pattern and has slate roofs.
Inside, the church features an open-timbered roof supported by arched braces on stone corbels. The original fixed seating was removed, likely in the 1950s, and the space has since been converted into a hall.
The church is enclosed by a rubble-built perimeter wall that includes simple gatepiers, also constructed of rubble.
Local climate
Hall, High Street, Bowmore, Islay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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