Tain Parish Church, Shandwick Street, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Former church.
Tain Parish Church, Shandwick Street, Tain
- WRENN ID
- over-panel-cobweb
- 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
- Former church
- Address
- Tain Parish Church, Shandwick Street, Tain, IV19 1BQ
- OS grid reference
- NH 782 818
- Coordinates
- 57.80994, -4.05129
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tain Parish Church, built between 1811 and 1815 by James Smith, is a late Georgian Gothick structure made of coursed, dressed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The building is symmetrical and square, featuring dummy single bay crenellated angle turrets. On the south elevation, there are two large Gothic traceried windows, Y-traceried gallery windows, and simple multi-pane glazing in the four-centred arched ground floor windows. The turrets and ground floor also have blind windows, with hood moulding on the south side. The church has a piended slate roof.
There are modern harled additions and a modern Fife stone porch facing Shandwick Street. Surrounding the church is a low coped rubble wall with cast-iron spearhead railings, along with quadrant walls and gates leading to Stafford Street.
Local climate
Tain Parish Church, Shandwick Street, Tain receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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