Dunnet Parish Church is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.
Dunnet Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-roof-claret
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Dunnet Parish Church, KW14 8XD
- OS grid reference
- ND 219 711
- Coordinates
- 58.62151, -3.3449
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dunnet Parish Church is a simple T-plan church that may have a core dating back to before the Reformation. It features a north aisle added in 1837 and a two-storey tower at the west gable, likely from the 17th or early 18th century. The exterior is harled, with an entrance located at the base of the tower, which also has a small ground floor window in the center of the west elevation and several small vents on the first floor. The church has a saddleback roof running east to west.
On the south elevation of the main body of the church, there are four long narrow windows, along with a smaller, later window that lights the Minister's room on the left. The north aisle has similar narrow windows. The glazing is multi-pane, and the roofs are covered with slate.
Inside, the church has a plain interior featuring a pulpit with an upholstered buttoned back-board located in the center of the south wall. The aisles are filled with plain box pews from 1837 that are slightly raked. There is a wheel stair in the tower and a memorial in the entrance dedicated to Rev. Timothy Pont, who was the Minister of Dunnet from 1601 to 1610.
The burial ground surrounding the church is enclosed by roughly coped rubble walls and contains tombs that date from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
Local climate
Dunnet Parish Church receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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