Duirinish Parish Church, Skye is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church.

Duirinish Parish Church, Skye

WRENN ID
solitary-quartz-aspen
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NG 250 479
Coordinates
57.43835, -6.583
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Duirinish Parish Church, built between 1823 and 1832, is a simple tall Gothic Revival rectangular church located on the Isle of Skye. The church features a battlemented tower on its northwest elevation and is constructed from whitewashed rubble with dressed stone margins. It is oriented roughly southeast to northwest. The entrance, which has a pointed arch, is located at the base of the four-stage tower, which rises two short upper stages above the apex of the gable. The tower is adorned with angle pinnacles and has two flanking windows. The side elevations have three bays, each containing three pointed-headed windows, while the east gable has two windows. All windows are pointed-headed with Y-tracery and glazing, although some are blind. The church is topped with a slate roof.

Inside, the church retains its original fittings and features a gallery that is galleried on three sides. The front of the gallery is panelled and supported by simple Roman Doric columns. An octagonal panelled pulpit is accessed by a flight of stairs on the right, with a penitent's platform to the left. The rear of the pulpit has a panelled false door and doorpiece, along with a pinnacled polygonal groined sounding board that has a white ogee roof topped by a wooden urn.

Local climate

Duirinish Parish Church, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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