Presbytery, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Beauly is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.
Presbytery, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Beauly
- WRENN ID
- rusted-spandrel-moon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- OS grid reference
- NH 527 466
- Coordinates
- 57.48593, -4.45757
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The presbytery dates from 1864 and is likely the work of Joseph Hansom. It is a two-storey, three-bay asymmetrical dwelling constructed of red rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The right bay features a gabled porch set in a re-entrant angle. The ground and first floors contain tripartite windows. A canted bay window is positioned on the South garden front. The windows are fitted with two-pane glazing, and there are coped end stacks and decorative bargeboards. The roof is slate.
The church is a tall, first-pointed Gothic building facing east and west, comprising a nave, chancel, and a north aisle. It is built of coursed red rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The west gable features a central, pointed-headed entrance, above which are paired, narrow windows linked by a continuous hoodmould. A wheel window with plate tracery sits above the entrance, flanked by angle buttresses. The north and south flanks each have five buttressed bays, punctuated by off-centre entrances and Y-traceried windows. A gabled chancel is located at the east end, with transepts on the south side, which link to the presbytery. The church has mainly leaded-pane glazing and a bellcote at the east gable of the nave. Slate roofs complete the exterior.
Inside, the north side features an arcade and a small Lady Chapel to the east. A tall Gothic arch frames the chancel, incorporating nailhead detailing, and a marble altar is present. The interior also includes a panelled pine dado and pine pews, along with a gallery at the west end. The ceiling is timber.
The church, burial ground and presbytery are enclosed by a harled rubble wall with a roughly crenellated cope. The church is an ecclesiastical building in ecclesiastical use.
Local climate
Presbytery, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Beauly sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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