Croick Parish Church is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971.
Croick Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- white-buttress-crow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 456 914
- Coordinates
- 57.88595, -4.60445
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Croick Parish Church is a T-plan church built in 1827, designed by Thomas Telford and constructed by James Smith. The church is harled, with tooled margins to the stonework. The north elevation features a pair of depressed arched outer doors, and similarly arched central windows with two-light cast-iron lattice glazing. The east and west gables, and the south wing of the T-plan, share this window detailing. A bellcote with stumpy finials sits at the west apex.
Inside, original interior fittings remain, including pews, a communion table, and a pulpit. The surrounding burial ground is bounded by a coped rubble wall and contains various 19th-century tombs. The east window bears inscriptions of names and signatures of people evicted from neighbouring straths in 1845 and Gruinards (Greenyards) in 1854; during harsh winters, multiple families sought shelter in the burial ground. The church retains its original interior layout at a time when many similar buildings have been altered. The church remains in ecclesiastical use.
Local climate
Croick Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 79 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 61 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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