Free Church, Migdale is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. Church wall and gate piers.

Free Church, Migdale

WRENN ID
burning-chancel-dew
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
Type
Church wall and gate piers
OS grid reference
NH 626 921
Coordinates
57.89741, -4.31866
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Free Church in Migdale was built in 1881 and features a simple Gothic design. The building has a coursed rubble frontage, with harl pointed rubble flanks and tooled ashlar dressings. The south gable showcases a recessed Gothic doorway in the advanced center bay, which includes nook shafts and a continuous hoodmould that connects to small flanking lancets. Above this, there is a string course, with triple lancets set beneath a pointed relieving arch. The apex bellcote is adorned with decorative oculi, and the building has long outer lancets along with angle buttresses topped with terminal pinnacles.

The six-bay flanks are illuminated by narrow pointed-headed windows, while the north gable has two similar but shorter windows, along with angle buttresses and a small finial. The windows feature simple leaded glazing, and the roof is made of slate.

Inside, the church has a gallery on three sides, which is decorated with Gothic cusped blind arcading at the front. The pulpit is panelled and includes a five-sided sounding board, with panelled sections at the rear and front. Below the pulpit is a clerk's desk, with flanking stairs that have handrails.

The property is also marked by tooled ashlar gate piers topped with ball finials, along with cast iron gates and spearhead cast-iron railings on a coped rubble retaining wall.

Local climate

Free Church, Migdale sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 48 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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