Lochbroom Parish Church, Inverbroom is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Lochbroom Parish Church, Inverbroom
- WRENN ID
- woven-plinth-swallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 177 847
- Coordinates
- 57.81541, -5.07044
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Lochbroom Parish Church, located in Inverbroom, was built in 1817. It underwent repairs in 1832 and further alterations by Matthews and Laurie in 1878. The church is a plain, two-storey, rectangular building with three-bay flanks. The east gable features a central round-headed entrance with a hoodmould, approached by a ramp, flanked by windows, and with a bipartite window above. A bellcote sits atop the apex of the east gable, likely added in 1878. The fenestration is symmetrical, with three tall ground-floor windows on each flank, mirrored by smaller gallery windows above. A small gabled vestry is located to the rear, with a secondary entrance.
Inside, original fittings remain. A long gallery, with a panelled front filling three sides, is supported by chamfered, square wooden pilasters. Pews line the side aisles, and the centre of the church is filled with two long communion tables within long, parallel panelled box pews. A simple, five-sided, panelled pulpit stands against the west gable wall, featuring a reeded, pilastered, and panelled backboard with flanking doors. The gallery has been sealed off, and the east end of the church has been partitioned. A memorial tablet commemorates Sir John Fowler (1817-1898) of Breamore, Engineer in Chief of the Forth Bridge.
The church is set within a burial ground enclosed by rubble walls, containing 18th, 19th, and 20th century tombs. There is a burial enclosure with memorial tablets to Kenneth Mackenzie of Dundonnel (died 1732) and Alexander Mackenzie of Ballon(e) of Tarbat Parish (died 1724). Some upstanding walling may be remnants of an earlier church. The ecclesiastical building remains in use as a place of worship.
Local climate
Lochbroom Parish Church, Inverbroom sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,720 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 74 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 60 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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