Church Of Scotland, Invermoriston is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church.

Church Of Scotland, Invermoriston

WRENN ID
salt-tin-mallow
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
NH 418 169
Coordinates
57.21554, -4.61993
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Church of Scotland in Invermoriston, designed by George Gordon and Co. in 1913, is a Gothic-style rectangular church oriented west to east, featuring a canted apse at the west gable and a square, two-storey tower at the east. The exterior is harled, with contrasting painted tooled ashlar dressings.

A gabled porch projects from the south side of the tower, which has a pointed-headed entrance beneath a square hoodmould with cusped detailing in the spandrels. The entrance is flanked by a pair of double-leaf plank doors with decorative cast-iron hinges. The tower includes two-light pointed-headed windows on the ground floor (west and north) and a single window on the first floor (north only). There are blind clock faces under hoodmoulds on the west and south sides, and hoodmoulded louvred windows in the second stage beneath a corbelled and crenellated wallhead, along with an octagonal stair turret. Stepped diagonal buttresses support the structure. The three-bay flanks feature pointed-headed hoodmoulded windows with Y-tracery and additional buttresses. Each facet of the apse has a single hoodmoulded window, and the glazing is of lattice-pane style. A small vestry projects from the northwest with a shouldered lintel above its entrance. The building has a base course and a slate roof.

Inside, the church has a simple rubble-walled interior with tooled ashlar dressings. There is a panelled dado that reaches cill height in the nave and apse. The roof features a hammer-beam timber structure with a plank ceiling. An octagonal pulpit showcases cusped detailing in its panelling. The interior also includes various mural memorials dedicated to the Grant family of Glenmoriston.

Local climate

Church Of Scotland, Invermoriston sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 74 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 56 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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