Parish Church, Tighnabruaich is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 October 1992. Church. 1 related planning application.
Parish Church, Tighnabruaich
- WRENN ID
- heavy-mullion-nightshade
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1992
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church, Tighnabruaich, PA21 2DX
- OS grid reference
- NR 980 729
- Coordinates
- 55.9075, -5.23235
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Parish Church in Tighnabruaich, designed by Boucher and Cousland in 1863, is a rectangular-plan gabled church featuring Romanesque detailing. It is constructed of cream sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a base course.
On the south elevation, the gable features a bellcote and a central round-arched doorway with a roll-moulded surround. The doorway has deeply splayed reveals, chamfered arrises with colonnettes, and is fitted with two-leaf boarded doors that have decorative cast-iron hinges. There are narrow round-arched windows on either side of the doorway, with a hoodmould course above them. Above the doorway, there are two round-arched lights with chamfered arrises and colonnettes, as well as a cill course with label stops.
The east side elevation includes four round-arched windows with diamond-pane leaded glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate and features ashlar coped skew with label stops beneath the bellcote.
Inside, the church has wainscot and retains its original pews. There are several memorial plaques and stained glass memorial windows dating from the late 19th century, dedicated to Rev Alexander Stark on the east wall, Rev Joseph Stark on the west wall, and John MacMillan on the east wall.
Local climate
Parish Church, Tighnabruaich sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,790 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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