Parish Church, Church Road, Nairn is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1981. Church.

Parish Church, Church Road, Nairn

WRENN ID
distant-rubblework-marsh
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 March 1981
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NH 885 562
Coordinates
57.58277, -3.86594
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Parish Church on Church Road in Nairn dates from around 1810. It underwent repairs by A & W Reid and Mackenzie in 1860. Only the south wall remains, featuring an entrance and a lunette above it. The church is surrounded by a walled graveyard that contains several gravestones from the 17th and 18th centuries, with the majority dating from the 19th century.

Local climate

Parish Church, Church Road, Nairn receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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