Ardclach Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 November 1983. Church.
Ardclach Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- rooted-mullion-linden
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1983
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NH 948 459
- Coordinates
- 57.49186, -3.7559
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ardclach Parish Church, built in 1844, is a triple-aisled church oriented north to south. It features a rubble construction with tooled rubble dressings. The church has a substantial, wide gabled porch with a round-headed entrance in the center of the north gable. Round-headed windows with simple Y-tracery are set in recessed gables, with three similar windows lighting the east and west elevations and single windows in the south gables. A plain, possibly slightly later, single-storey wing containing a vestry and session room projects from the center of the south gable. At the apex of the north gable, there is a bird-cage bellcote, and a stack is located at the south. The church has three parallel slate roofs that are piended at the outer bays. Inside, the pulpit and some pews have been re-used from the old Ardclach Parish Church. The church is enclosed by a rubble wall, featuring a pair of spearhead cast-iron gates with matching quadrant railings mounted on low coped rubble walls.
Local climate
Ardclach Parish Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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