Kilmore Parish Church Of Scotland, Drumnadrochit is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church.

Kilmore Parish Church Of Scotland, Drumnadrochit

WRENN ID
fallen-pier-oak
Grade
B
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
NH 509 294
Coordinates
57.33075, -4.47806
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kilmore Parish Church of Scotland in Drumnadrochit is a tall, rectangular church designed by architect William Robertson from Elgin in 1836. The church is oriented east-west and features harled walls with tooled ashlar margins. The west gable has a pointed-headed entrance at its center, with a similarly lintelled gallery window above, flanked by long round-headed blind windows. The church has symmetrical long elevations with four bays, each featuring long windows with four-centred heads and simple Y-tracery. The east gable has a similar but wider window, which is partially blocked at the base by the Minister's porch and vestry. The windows are decorated with lattice-pane glazing.

Atop the west gable is a bellcote with Gothic detailing and a stiff leaf decoration on the finial, while a simple square finial sits at the apex of the east gable. The church has crowsteps and a slate roof.

Inside, the church has a galleried interior, with the gallery extending to three sides. The plain front of the gallery, which is a later addition, is supported by painted cast-iron cluster columns. There is a late 19th-century Minister's dais reached by a short stair, and the pews were brought from elsewhere in 1958. The interior also features some mural memorials and stained glass in the east window. The church has an unusual scissor-braced roof and houses a church bell dated 1780. Surrounding the church is a burial ground enclosed by a drystone wall.

Local climate

Kilmore Parish Church Of Scotland, Drumnadrochit sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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