Parish Church, Berriedale is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971. 1 related planning application.
Parish Church, Berriedale
- WRENN ID
- under-threshold-alder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1971
- Address
- Parish Church, Berriedale, KW7 6HA
- OS grid reference
- ND 121 232
- Coordinates
- 58.1895, -3.49666
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Parish Church of Berriedale, built in 1826, is a standard Parliamentary T-plan church designed by Thomas Telford. It is constructed with harled walls and margins of tooled ashlar. The church features a pair of outer doors, with plaques above, though the southwestern entrance is now blocked. A later projecting gabled porch now hides the original southeastern entrance. The centre windows are paired, featuring depressed arched lintels, simple Y-tracery, and cast-iron lattice pane glazing. Similar window detailing is found in the east and west gables and the rear wing. A standard bellcote with stumpy finials sits atop the west gable apex, while the east gable features a trefoil finial. A low vestry addition has been added to the rear. The roof is slate.
The interior retains its original simple layout and contains no gallery. The church is situated within a drystone walled burial ground containing 19th and 20th century tombs.
A plaque above the southeastern entrance reads: "On the application of James Horne of Langwell who granted all the required Accommodation of Lands, etc GRATIS 1826." A plaque above the blocked southwestern entrance reads: “Erected by Commissioners of Parliament in 1826.” The church occupies the site of an earlier mission chapel. Berriedale became a Quoad Sacra Parish from 1846.
Local climate
Parish Church, Berriedale receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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