Ferintosh Free Church is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Church.
Ferintosh Free Church
- WRENN ID
- rooted-pavement-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NH 574 569
- Coordinates
- 57.57973, -4.38642
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ferintosh Free Church was built in 1843 and features a plain rectangular design with a small tower at the southeast corner. The church is harled with ashlar dressings. The body of the church has a four-bay south elevation, which includes two east windows that are more closely spaced. These windows are round-arched with keyblocks and have astragals that intersect at the tops. On the west gable, there are two tall, slim round-arched windows that light the pulpit.
The tower, added in 1907, has a square plan with a battered base course and rusticated quoins. It features a splayed round-arched door with console key-blocking and tall rectangular slits above. The tower has a cornice and parapet adorned with stumpy pinnacles at the angles. Rising from the parapet is a spired bird-cage neo-Norman belfry, which has a round-arched opening on each face, supported by slim engaged shafts with cushion capitals. The church is surrounded by a coped drystone wall in the churchyard.
Local climate
Ferintosh Free Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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