Old Parish Church, Arisaig is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. 1 related planning application.
Old Parish Church, Arisaig
- WRENN ID
- silver-frieze-ochre
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NM 658 869
- Coordinates
- 56.9142, -5.84766
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Parish Church in Arisaig is a burial ground that likely dates back to the late medieval period. It is a simple rectangular structure oriented east to west, featuring a small burial enclosure at the west gable. The church is constructed entirely of rubble, with entrances located in the southwest and southeast, the latter being a former priest's entrance. There is also a very low doorway leading to the west burial enclosure, which belongs to the Macdonalds of Morar. The church is roofless and shows some damage to the east gable wall.
Attached to the church is a small roofless burial enclosure that has a semi-circular chamfered mural recess in the north wall, which contains a carved, crested stone dated 1641 and initialled MRGM. Above this recess is a mural memorial tablet dated 1843. The church is situated within a simple drystone-walled burial ground that contains at least three medieval or late medieval tombstones, as well as headstones from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Local climate
Old Parish Church, Arisaig sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,280 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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