Farnaway Church And Graveyard, Kirkton is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.
Farnaway Church And Graveyard, Kirkton
- WRENN ID
- frozen-outpost-river
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- OS grid reference
- NH 605 452
- Coordinates
- 57.47557, -4.32716
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The site comprises the ruins of Farnaway Church and its surrounding graveyard, located in Kirkton. The enclosure is constructed of high rubble walls with a round-headed entrance, topped with a roughly tooled rubble cope. The graveyard contains a selection of interesting tombstones dating from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The site represents the location of the former parish church of Farnua. This church was later combined with the parish of Wardlaw to form the parish of Kirkhill. The statutory address of the site is Kirton Burial Ground.
Local climate
Farnaway Church And Graveyard, Kirkton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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