St Michael's Church is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
St Michael's Church
- WRENN ID
- spare-cobalt-thistle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 705 658
- Coordinates
- 57.66391, -4.17086
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Michael's Church features a roofless chancel and a restored nave, both of which are used as burial grounds. The chancel dates back to the 16th century and serves as a burial site for the Shaw-Mackenzies of Newhall. It has a blocked Gothic bipartite east gable and a similar south elevation. There is a bead and hollow moulded door, with re-used run-off stops at lintel height and moulded footings. The later nave has a slate roof and a single Gothic window. The site includes interesting tombstones and monuments from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, as well as the remains of a moulded curved arched wall tomb recess located along the line of the older church, near the present nave door.
Local climate
St Michael's Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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