Former Assynt Parish Church (Church of Scotland) excluding scheduled monument 8309, Inchnadamph is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1998. Church. 1 related planning application.
Former Assynt Parish Church (Church of Scotland) excluding scheduled monument 8309, Inchnadamph
- WRENN ID
- turning-loft-spindle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1998
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NC 249 219
- Coordinates
- 58.15206, -4.97658
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Former Assynt Parish Church, built between 1741 and 1743, underwent significant alterations by William C Joass in 1900. This Church of Scotland building features a plain gabled rectangular plan with five bays, a small spire, and harled rubble walls.
The church has gabled dormer heads with bargeboards above segmental-arched windows on both the north (rear) and south (front) sides. At the center of the shouldered wallhead, there is a pink stone chimney stack. The entrance door, located on the outer right, is boarded with a glazed upper section featuring two panes. There are signs of a former window in the east gable.
At the east end, the spire has a square base and a bell-cast pyramidal slate roof topped with a cross finial. The spire includes timber small-pane glazing with two-pane top-hoppers. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and features a stone ridge, along with the aforementioned chimney stack.
The interior was largely refurbished in 1900 and includes a coomb ceiling, a boarded dado, and pine pews angled for the choir. The pulpit is octagonal, featuring a cornice, a panelled backboard, and flanking doors, and it may date back to the early 19th century.
Local climate
Former Assynt Parish Church (Church of Scotland) excluding scheduled monument 8309, Inchnadamph sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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