Church Of Scotland Parish Church, Edderton is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Church.
Church Of Scotland Parish Church, Edderton
- WRENN ID
- floating-tallow-willow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NH 710 847
- Coordinates
- 57.83331, -4.17373
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Church of Scotland Parish Church in Edderton, built in 1842, showcases the Gothic style of architect James Smith. The church features an impressive facade made of tooled coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. At the center is a projecting tower that serves as the Minister's porch, which has a square base and a central door. The tower includes two octagonal stages, with a pointed-headed Y-traceried window above and louvred windows in the second stage, culminating in a bellcast slated octagonal spire topped with a weathervane.
Flanking the tower are two large 3-light Gothic windows with traceries and mullions, along with shallow projecting gallery stairwells in the outer bays. The outer bays also contain pointed-headed windows on the ground and first floors, each bay accented by wide angle pilasters, angle pinnacles, and central pediments featuring a trefoil motif. The church has 3-bay flanks with central projecting porches, which are flanked by blocked Gothic windows, with three similarly shaped windows above. The windows have intersecting astragals, and the roof is a piended platform covered in slate.
Inside, the church has a five-sided panelled galleried interior, with the gallery supported by fluted cast-iron columns. The pulpit has been replaced and lowered, but the original ogee octagonal sounding board remains, adorned with delicate Adamesque "stucco duro" detailing on the frieze.
Local climate
Church Of Scotland Parish Church, Edderton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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