Kilbrandon And Kilchattan Kirk, Seil is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Church. 1 related planning application.

Kilbrandon And Kilchattan Kirk, Seil

WRENN ID
lone-brass-stoat
Grade
C
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
NM 757 155
Coordinates
56.27915, -5.62383
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kilbrandon and Kilchattan Kirk, located on Seil, was built in 1864 and is designed in a plain Gothic Revival style. The building has an oblong shape and is constructed from snecked rubble with a gabled roof. It features a slated roof and a belfry, along with pointed windows that contain stained glass created by Douglas Strachan in 1937. Inside, the church has an open timber ceiling and an organ gallery. The building is accessed by two flights of stairs on the hillside.

Local climate

Kilbrandon And Kilchattan Kirk, Seil sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,300 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 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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