Daviot Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and Burial Ground, Daviot is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church.
Daviot Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and Burial Ground, Daviot
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-belfry-aspen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NH 723 394
- Coordinates
- 57.42738, -4.12759
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Daviot Parish Church, a Church of Scotland building, was constructed in 1826. It is a rectangular church with a harled exterior, featuring tooled ashlar margins and dressings. At the west gable, there is a tower made of tooled and polished ashlar.
The church is oriented north to south and has a round-headed entrance, along with a similar gallery window at the center of the north gable. The entrance includes a double leaf panelled door topped with an apex ball finial. The long east and west elevations are highlighted by a central Venetian window, flanked by long round-headed windows and intermediate buttresses. There is a small, later vestry window at the southeast. The wallhead is crenellated, with short angle pinnacles on the east and west elevations, and features ashlar angle margins and dated rainwater heads. The roof is slate.
The slender square tower, which is five stories tall, is attached to the south gable and is entirely made of tooled and polished ashlar. It has a narrow door at the base of the tall ground floor, with small windows high in the return gables. The tower features a stepped band course from which three narrower stages rise, defined by band courses and round-headed or bull's eye lights. The fourth stage is topped with a wide moulded cornice and angle ball finials, leading to a narrow fifth storey with square louvred windows set in margined round-headed recesses on each face. This stage has a deep moulded cornice with stumpy angle pinnacles and an ashlar spire that ends in a ball finial topped with a gilded weathercock, although the directional pointers for north, south, east, and west are missing.
Inside, the church has been recast with a lowered ceiling and a west gallery, along with new pews and fittings.
Surrounding the church is a burial ground enclosed by roughly coped rubble walls. The entrance is flanked by simple square rubble piers with shaped caps, and the burial ground contains tombs from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Local climate
Daviot Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and Burial Ground, Daviot 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 71 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 53 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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