Gatepiers at entrance to burial ground, St Columba's Church, Invermoriston is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Gatepiers at entrance to burial ground, St Columba's Church, Invermoriston
- WRENN ID
- patient-steel-hawk
- 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
- NH 422 166
- Coordinates
- 57.2134, -4.6142
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The burial ground at St Columba's Church in Invermoriston is a square area enclosed by rubble walls. The entrance is marked by simple monolith piers, which are accompanied by outer pedestrian gateways. Within the burial ground, there are various tombs from the 18th and 19th centuries, including the Grant of Invermoriston enclosure, which is dated 1794. This enclosure is surrounded by a low coped retaining wall topped with spearhead cast-iron railings. The entrance to the Grant enclosure features a pair of square rusticated ashlar gate piers with moulded corniced caps and ball finials, along with cast-iron gates.
Additionally, there is a rubble memorial dated 1848, along with several small re-set early 19th century tombstones. Access to the burial ground is via a short drive from the main road, where a similar pair of simple monolith gate piers can be found flanking another entrance at the junction of the main road.
Local climate
Gatepiers at entrance to burial ground, St Columba's Church, Invermoriston sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 74 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 56 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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