St Columba's Roman Catholic Church And Drimnin Castle, Drimnin is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 1980. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Columba's Roman Catholic Church And Drimnin Castle, Drimnin
- WRENN ID
- broken-courtyard-falcon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1980
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NM 547 549
- Coordinates
- 56.62223, -5.99908
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Columba's Roman Catholic Church, built in 1838, is a rectangular church oriented to the northwest, featuring a three-stage square tower at the southeast gable. The church is constructed of harled rubble with polished ashlar dressings. The entrance is round-headed and located at the base of the tower, with a similarly shaped window above it and a blind oculus below a blocked wallhead cornice. The tower has a crenellated wallhead with a small stack that serves the tower vestry, which is concealed by the crenellation. Each flank of the church has three round-headed windows, and there is a single blocked window in the northwest crowstepped gable. All openings are framed with long-short rusticated ashlar architraves and have ashlar cills. The building features rusticated long-short quoins, an apex cross at the northwest, and a bandcourse along the long elevations beneath the crenellated wallheads. The slate roof is in very poor condition. The interior has been gutted.
Local climate
St Columba's Roman Catholic Church And Drimnin Castle, Drimnin sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,820 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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