Kensaleyre Church, Kensaleyre, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church.
Kensaleyre Church, Kensaleyre, Skye
- WRENN ID
- stark-tower-soot
- 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
- NG 421 517
- Coordinates
- 57.48225, -6.30386
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kensaleyre Church, located in Kensaleyre on the Isle of Skye, was designed by James Gillespie Graham in 1800, with additions made in 1839 and further alterations and repairs by Alexander Ross in 1872. This T-plan church features a harled exterior with ashlar margins. The main rectangular body is oriented east to west, with a northern addition from 1839 and a projecting Minister's room and entrance at the center of the south side.
The south elevation has two long pointed windows, while the north side includes ground and gallery windows. All windows have ashlar margins, and those in the oldest part of the church feature impost blocks. The north gable has a pointed-headed doorway with a fanlight, and there is a square-headed doorway in the east gable. The church has Gothic glazing with intersecting astragals and a bellcote added in 1872 at the apex of the east gable. The roof is slate.
Inside, the church has a simple galleried interior of good quality, which includes the original pulpit and sounding board.
Local climate
Kensaleyre Church, Kensaleyre, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,760 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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