Cemetery, Gaelic Chapel, The Paye, Cromarty is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Graveyard, chapel.
Cemetery, Gaelic Chapel, The Paye, Cromarty
- WRENN ID
- first-stair-vermeil
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Graveyard, chapel
- OS grid reference
- NH 788 672
- Coordinates
- 57.67902, -4.03347
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gaelic Chapel, located in The Paye, Cromarty, is a roofless church built in 1783. It features a symmetrical rectangular design with long north and south elevations. At the east end, there is a two-stage tower, while the west side has a low entrance that projects with chamfered angles. The exterior is finished with thinly harled red rubble, accented by polished ashlar dressings and margins. The belfry stage of the tower is constructed from cherry pointed squared rubble, with ashlar angle margins.
The main body of the church consists of four bays. On the south elevation, there are two tall central round-headed windows and one window in both the ground and gallery levels of the outer bays. The north elevation has three blind windows at the ground floor and three gallery windows. The tower features splayed angles on both stages, a round-headed door on the south side, and four round-headed keyblocked openings in the belfry. The tower is topped with a tall bellcast and facetted slate roof. Surrounding the graveyard is a drystone dyke, which contains gravestones from the late 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Local climate
Cemetery, Gaelic Chapel, The Paye, Cromarty receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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