Knockbain Free Church is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982.
Knockbain Free Church
- WRENN ID
- lost-hammer-frost
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1982
- OS grid reference
- NH 635 504
- Coordinates
- 57.52396, -4.28074
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Knockbain Free Church is a Gothic style building dating from 1888, designed by John Rhind. It is a cruciform church with a porch located on the southwest side and a tower set into the southeast angle. A vestry and several associated buildings are grouped around the tower. The church is constructed from sneck coursed red rubble stone, with polished ashlar dressings of the same material. It features large triple lancet windows in each gable. The square tower transitions to an octagonal shape, topped with a louvred belfry and a facetted spire, which is crowned with a weathervane. The roof is slate. The building remains in use as an ecclesiastical building. The site was originally situated just within the boundaries of Killearnan parish. References to the building’s construction appear in the Inverness Courier of 13th March 1888, in advertisements for tenders, and in the journals Building News (volume 5, page 64, and volume 6, page 393). Further information can be found in Ewing's Annals of the Free Church, volume 2, page 214.
Local climate
Knockbain Free Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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