Churchyard, Lochalsh Parish Church, Kirkton Of Lochalsh is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Churchyard, Lochalsh Parish Church, Kirkton Of Lochalsh
- WRENN ID
- worn-corridor-river
- 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
- Address
- Churchyard, Lochalsh Parish Church, Kirkton Of Lochalsh, IV40 8EG
- OS grid reference
- NG 828 271
- Coordinates
- 57.28357, -5.6042
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The churchyard and church at Kirkton of Lochalsh date from 1804 to 1806, with repairs carried out in 1910 by Robert J Macbeth. The church is a tall, rectangular building with harled walls, accented by tooled margins and quoins. It features four round-headed windows on its south elevation, and a single similar window on each of the east and west gables. The windows have an intersecting Y-glazing pattern. A smaller, later window has been inserted into the north elevation, providing light to a later vestry. The roof is covered in slate.
The interior is galleried, with a panelled gallery front supported by wooden pilasters. Later 19th-century additions include a pulpit and pews. The church is an ecclesiastical building and remains in use.
The walled churchyard contains a late medieval grave slab, decorated with an incised sword and the initials 'F M,' and a recumbent figure holding a sword. The church is referenced in several historical documents, including an advertisement for tenders in the Edinburgh Evening Courant in May 1804, the Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland (c. 1858), and the Northern Chronicle of July 20, 1910.
Local climate
Churchyard, Lochalsh Parish Church, Kirkton Of Lochalsh 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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