Urquhart Church Of Scotland Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1981. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Urquhart Church Of Scotland Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- twisted-thatch-gorse
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1981
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NH 577 578
- Coordinates
- 57.58858, -4.38056
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Urquhart Church of Scotland Parish Church was built in 1795 using coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slated roof. The church has a simple rectangular shape and includes a birdcage bellcote at the west gable, topped with a stepped pyramidal roof and a ball finial, while the east gable has a fleur de lis finial. The south front consists of six bays with tall round-arched windows, featuring intersecting traceried astragals in the central four bays. Originally, there was a door at each of the end bays, but a later vestry now projects from between the two central windows. The church was reoriented to the east in 1894 by Ross & Macbeth, during which geometric tracery was added to the rectangular gable windows, and the south door was converted into a low window with two cusped lights. The churchyard is enclosed by a rubble wall.
Local climate
Urquhart Church Of Scotland Parish Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 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 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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