Tarbat Free Church Of Scotland Church, Portmahomack is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Church.
Tarbat Free Church Of Scotland Church, Portmahomack
- WRENN ID
- pitched-lead-jet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NH 913 840
- Coordinates
- 57.83316, -3.83165
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Tarbat Free Church of Scotland, located in Portmahomack, was built by Maitland and Sons between 1892 and 1893. This Gothic-style church features a front made of coursed dressed rubble, with rubble flanks and tooled dressings. The symmetrical gabled east front is flanked by projecting bowed gallery stair wings. At the center is a projecting gabled porch that has a pointed, moulded doorway and small nookshafts. Above the porch are two windows with geometric tracery, which are linked by a continuous hood-mould. The design includes angle pilasters that terminate in cylindrical pinnacles, a small apex wheel window, and a finialled bellcote above. The six-bay flanks are adorned with narrow pointed-headed lancets. At the rear, there is a vestry wing centered on the west gable. The church has a slate roof featuring triangular louvred vents and a tiled ridge crest. Inside, the church has a galleried interior.
Local climate
Tarbat Free Church Of Scotland Church, Portmahomack receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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