St Columba's Episcopal Church, Park Road, Portree, Skye is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church.

St Columba's Episcopal Church, Park Road, Portree, Skye

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
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 481 437
Coordinates
57.41395, -6.19612
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Columba's Episcopal Church, built in 1884 by Alexander Ross, is a simple rectangular church designed in the first pointed Gothic style. It features stugged sneck coursed rubble with tooled red sandstone dressings. The church has a truncated tower that houses a porch at the southwest angle. On the east gable, there are triple lancets that are linked by a pointed hoodmould, and the flanks are buttressed with six bays. The roof is made of slate.

Local climate

St Columba's Episcopal Church, Park Road, Portree, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,970 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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