Parish Church, Church Of Scotland, Acharacle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.
Parish Church, Church Of Scotland, Acharacle
- WRENN ID
- salt-doorway-scarlet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church, Church Of Scotland, Acharacle, PH36 4JU
- OS grid reference
- NM 675 683
- Coordinates
- 56.74866, -5.8036
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Parish Church of Scotland in Acharacle was designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1829. It is a simple rectangular Parliamentary church featuring a four-bay northeast frontage made of rubble, with harled flanks and rear, and dressed with tooled ashlar. The outer bays have double leaf doors set in shallow pointed arches, although the left door is blocked. The center bays on the front and rear also have similar arch details for the windows, along with single windows in the northwest and southeast gables. These windows retain their original cast-iron frames, which include a central mullion, shallow Y-tracery, and lattice-pane glazing. At the southeast gable apex, there is a standard Parliamentary church bellcote, and the building is topped with a slate roof. A small single-storey vestry has been added to the rear.
Inside, the church has a simple layout that is oriented towards the southeast gable.
The church is surrounded by a burial ground enclosed by simple rubble walls. Additionally, there is another walled burial ground to the northeast that slopes down to the road. This area features a crenellated entrance arch, which serves as a war memorial arch made of bullfaced rubble, with plaques set into its outer faces. The lower burial ground is marked by simple walls topped with rounded, roughly tooled copes.
Local climate
Parish Church, Church Of Scotland, Acharacle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,050 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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