Roman Catholic Church Of St Patrick, Mallaig is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Roman Catholic Church Of St Patrick, Mallaig
- WRENN ID
- second-bailey-ivory
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NM 675 969
- Coordinates
- 57.00455, -5.83029
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick, built in 1935 by Reginald Fairlie, is a simple rectangular church with its liturgical east gable bowed outwards. A bowed projecting porch faces northeast, and a gabled projecting chapel extends northwest. A squat, square tower is situated southeast. The exterior is white harled with contrasting painted cills, a base course, and other detailing. Tooled ashlar forms round-headed windows that light the east gable; similar smaller windows illuminate the nave and chancel. An engaged column supports a statuette in the centre of the chapel gable wall (north), sheltered by a hood. A squat, Germanic octagonal bellcote sits on the ridge, featuring louvred facets and a shaped lead ogee roof topped with a tall apex cross. The roof is slate, with a flat-roofed extension at the southwest.
The interior is simple, with a ribbed timber ceiling in the chancel. Harled coped enclosure walls, featuring square harled piers with shallow pyramidal caps, flank the entrance. Plain cast-iron railings and a gate provide enclosure. The church remains in use as an ecclesiastical building.
Local climate
Roman Catholic Church Of St Patrick, Mallaig sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,090 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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