St Duthuc's Roman Catholic Chapel, Dornie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
St Duthuc's Roman Catholic Chapel, Dornie
- WRENN ID
- hollow-chamber-elder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NG 884 267
- Coordinates
- 57.28234, -5.51167
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Duthuc's Roman Catholic Chapel, Dornie, was built in 1871 by J. A. Hansom, and is a simple Gothic-style church comprising a nave and chancel. The church is constructed of rubble with tooled dressings. The five-bay nave has lancet windows and a gabled porch at the northwest. The single-bay chancel has geometrical tracery in its east wall window and paired cusped lights in the south wall. A bellcote with paired bells sits at the apex of the west gable, and the building has a slate roof. A single-storey gabled vestry is located at the northeast, with its entrance facing the presbytery porch.
Inside, there is a stone Gothic reredos featuring polished granite shafts. Similar columns support the altar, and paired cusped lights are set within a niche in the south wall. A demi-octagonal stone pulpit is situated in the chancel arch angle, and there is a simple braced rafter roof.
The presbytery is an asymmetrical two-storey, two-bay gabled house, constructed of coursed rubble with painted stone margins. It features mullioned and transomed windows, a projecting gabled porch with a doorway leading to the vestry, two-pane glazing, corniced end stacks, and a slate roof.
There was a notable Roman Catholic presence in the parish by the 18th century; a priest served the parish by 1793, but no church existed at that time.
Local climate
St Duthuc's Roman Catholic Chapel, Dornie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,130 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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