Snizort Free Church, Skeabost, Skye is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. Church.

Snizort Free Church, Skeabost, Skye

WRENN ID
first-basalt-kestrel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 September 1982
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NG 407 489
Coordinates
57.45688, -6.32445
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Snizort Free Church, located in Skeabost, Skye, was built in 1847. It is a plain rectangular church with crowstepped gables, oriented southeast to northwest. The exterior is made of whitewashed rubble and features five buttressed bays on the sides, each with triangular-headed lancet windows. The southeast gable has a round-headed entrance, small flanking windows, and three lancets above, along with a bellcote. The northwest gable has two triangular-headed lancets, all fitted with lying-pane glazing. The church has a slate roof. Inside, there is a simple galleried layout, with some stencil decoration on the gallery, and all the fittings are original.

Local climate

Snizort Free Church, Skeabost, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,760 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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