St John's Episcopal Church, Arpafeelie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
St John's Episcopal Church, Arpafeelie
- WRENN ID
- unlit-plinth-sable
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 610 504
- Coordinates
- 57.52322, -4.32233
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St John's Episcopal Church dates to 1810-16 and was reconstructed in 1879 by Alexander Ross. It is a Gothic-style building, oriented east to west, with a rectangular plan. A gabled porch projects to the southwest, and a small vestry is located to the northeast. The exterior is constructed from rubble with broached and stugged, or broached and droved, dressings.
The east gable features a slightly advanced central bay with a large three-light perpendicular traceried window. The lower half of this window is blind, and it is flanked by blind Y-traceried windows. A blind cusped window is set in the gable end, topped by a cross finial. The west elevation contains three simple geometric traceried windows, while the east elevation has two. The west gable incorporates two similar windows above a rose window, with a small double belfry above. Stained glass is housed in the east window.
Inside, the church features pine fittings and a font originally from St Andrew's Well Street, London. The church is enclosed by a drystone dyke. A parsonage and an old school are situated close by. It remains an ecclesiastical building in use.
Local climate
St John's Episcopal Church, Arpafeelie 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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