Boleskine Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.
Boleskine Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- ragged-clay-thistle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NH 507 182
- Coordinates
- 57.23053, -4.47396
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Boleskine Parish Church, built in 1777, is a simple rectangular church with a long south-facing principal elevation featuring six bays. The structure is made of grey granite rubble with tooled rubble dressings. There are doorways in each outer bay, which have double leaf plank doors and rectangular fanlights. In bays two and five, there are pairs of round-headed windows, with two plain square-headed windows in the center. The east and west gables have gallery windows, and there is a small later ground floor window in the east gable that lights the later Minister's room. The church has multi-pane glazing.
At the west gable, there is a birdcage bellcote with a moulded cornice topped by a ball finial, and a ball finial is also present at the apex of the east gable. The roof is slate with flat skews.
Inside, the church has a simple interior that was recast in the late 19th century. It features a wide panelled pulpit and Minister's desk, a gallery across the west end, and plain pews.
Surrounding the church is a roughly coped drystone walled square burial ground, which is enclosed by a pair of square tooled grey granite gate piers with plain caps.
Local climate
Boleskine Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 78 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 61 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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