Kiltearn Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.

Kiltearn Parish Church

WRENN ID
crumbling-truss-cedar
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 616 652
Coordinates
57.6556, -4.3201
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kiltearn Parish Church is a roofless, T-plan church that was largely re-built between 1790 and 1791. The construction incorporated some earlier walling and medieval details, most notably visible at the east gable. The church is oriented east/west, with a projecting wing on the south elevation. It is constructed of harled rubble with ashlar margins, though much of the harling is now missing. The north facade is symmetrical, featuring two tall, round-headed windows with keystones, blocked at the impost level, flanked by single ground-floor and gallery windows. Round-headed windows with similar detailing are found in the east and west gables. Doorways are located in the outer bays of the south elevation. A double forestair leads to a first-floor corniced doorway on the south gable, accessing the former Foulis aisle, topped by a corniced apex chimney. A bellcote sits at the apex of the west gable.

The east gable retains earlier angle buttresses and vestiges of the hoodmould of a formerly blocked Gothic window. A rubble-walled burial ground surrounds the church. It features a pair of square ashlar gate piers, and contains a burial enclosure for the Munros of Foulis, dating from 1588, along with various 17th, 18th, and 19th-century tombs.

Local climate

Kiltearn Parish Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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