Ardclach Old Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Church.
Ardclach Old Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- fading-passage-onyx
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NH 954 450
- Coordinates
- 57.48336, -3.745
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ardclach Old Parish Church is a plain T-plan church built in 1765 by Donald McAndrew, which remodelled a church from 1626, as indicated by the roll mouldings on the east gable. The church was heightened and fitted with round-headed windows by George Dunbar and John Wilson between 1836 and 1838. The interior was recast by Alexander Reid in 1892. The structure is made of rubble with tooled dressings and features two entrances on the north elevation, each flanked by a rear wing with round-headed windows that use the lintel as a cill. The long south elevation is lit by four large round-headed windows, with similar windows on the east and west elevations of the rear wing, as well as small gallery windows. The church has lattice pane glazing and a slate roof. Inside, there is a mural memorial from 1766 in the east gable, but the galleried interior has been stripped of most fittings.
Local climate
Ardclach Old Parish Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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