Glenshiel Parish Church is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982.

Glenshiel Parish Church

WRENN ID
vacant-quartz-martin
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 September 1982
OS grid reference
NG 900 214
Coordinates
57.23552, -5.48107
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Glenshiel Parish Church is a building of ecclesiastical use, orientated east/west, with a core dating back to 1756. It was repaired, enlarged, and re-roofed in 1840, and further repairs and refitting were carried out in 1866 by Alexander Ross. The church is a simple, oblong, harled 4-bay building with a west gable entrance. The north elevation features four long 18-pane sash windows, while each gable has a 12-pane sash window. A small bellcote, added in 1866, sits atop the ridge. The interior is simple and galleried, with rubble stone walls.

Local climate

Glenshiel Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,230 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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