Keil Parish Church is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 1980. Church.
Keil Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-cobalt-sparrow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1980
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NM 671 451
- Coordinates
- 56.54066, -5.78989
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Keil Parish Church, probably designed by P MacGregor Chalmers in 1898, is a simple rectangular church with four bays and a lower single bay chancel at the east gable. The exterior is made of whitewashed rubble featuring contrasting pointed long-short detailing. The entrance is located at the southwest, concealed by a projecting gabled porch with a round-headed entrance. The church has small round-headed windows, paired lancets in the west gable separated by a buttress, and a single lancet in the east gable of the chancel. There is stained glass in two windows on the north elevation, while the other windows have simple lattice pane glazing. A bellcote is situated at the east gable of the nave, and there is an apex cross at the west. The roof is slate.
Inside, the church has a plain interior with a braced timber roof.
Adjacent to the church is a session house built in 1774, which has undergone later alterations and was restored in 1988. This building is a simple single rendered rubble structure with modern glazing and a slate roof, surrounded by a simple drystone walled enclosure.
Local climate
Keil Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,210 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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