St Andrew's Church, Tongue is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971. Church.

St Andrew's Church, Tongue

WRENN ID
grim-bastion-marsh
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 March 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NC 590 570
Coordinates
58.47874, -4.41826
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Andrew's Church in Tongue dates back to 1680, with an earlier core likely incorporating a medieval chapel. The church underwent further additions and rebuilding in 1729/31, 1778, and 1862. It is a simple white harled cruciform church featuring ashlar dressings. The earliest part of the building runs east-west, with a pointed-headed entrance located in the south elevation. The west gable has a flat-headed entrance with a window above, accessed by a flight of steps leading to the Laird's loft. The church has long wings on the north and south sides, with the south wing containing a simple moulded doorpiece dated 1680, which leads to the Minister's room. There is a single small pointed-headed window in the south gable and additional windows in the north and south elevations of the main body of the church. The east gable is lit by two long rectangular windows. A plain flat-headed doorway provides access to the north wing, which now serves as a parish room and features lattice glazing. At the apex of the west gable, there is a 19th-century bellcote with cavetto skewputts and crowsteps, topped with a West Highland slate roof and a stone ridge.

Inside, the church has a simple layout oriented to the east, with a small gallery to the west, which was formerly the Laird's Loft, featuring an 18th-century panelled front.

The burial ground is enclosed by rubble walls topped with simple stepped caps and features a pair of cast-iron gates.

Local climate

St Andrew's Church, Tongue sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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