St Moluags Cathedral, Lismore is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Church.

St Moluags Cathedral, Lismore

WRENN ID
hallowed-belfry-foxglove
Grade
B
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
NM 860 434
Coordinates
56.53464, -5.48048
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Moluags Cathedral in Lismore features a chancel that was begun around 1250 and converted into a parish church in 1749. The building is oblong in shape, harled, and has a skew-gabled slate roof with a bird-cage belfry. It includes buttresses and segmental-headed windows, as well as a round arch with hood-moulding on the south side. A modern castellated porch has been added.

Inside, the cathedral boasts an open timber roof, sedilia, and a piscina. The floor level is raised, and there is a grave-slab belonging to Duncan Stewart, the 2nd of Appin. The foundations of the nave and tower are located to the west.

Local climate

St Moluags Cathedral, Lismore sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,230 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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