Lochalsh Parish Church, Kirkton Of Lochalsh is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. 5 related planning applications.
Lochalsh Parish Church, Kirkton Of Lochalsh
- WRENN ID
- burning-bonework-ebony
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Address
- Lochalsh Parish Church, Kirkton Of Lochalsh, IV40 8EG
- OS grid reference
- NG 829 272
- Coordinates
- 57.28392, -5.60347
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lochalsh Parish Church is a rectangular church built between 1804 and 1806. It was repaired in 1910 by Robert J Macbeth. The church is harled, with tooled margins and quoins. It has four round-headed windows on its south elevation, and one similar window on each of its east and west gables, all featuring a distinctive intersecting Y-glazing pattern. A smaller window was added later to the north elevation, providing light to a later vestry. The roof is slate.
Inside, the church has a galleried interior. The gallery front is panelled and supported by wooden pilasters. The interior also contains later 19th-century pews and a pulpit.
A walled graveyard surrounds the church, containing a late medieval grave slab. This slab is decorated with an incised sword and the initials "F M", along with a recumbent figure holding a sword.
The church remains in ecclesiastical use.
References to the building's history can be found in an advertisement for tenders in the Edinburgh Evening Courant of May 31, 1804, and in the Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland (c. 1858). A report of the 1910 repairs appeared in the Northern Chronicle of July 20, 1910. George Hay's book, The Architecture of Scottish Post-Reformation Churches (1957), discusses the building on page 272.
Local climate
Lochalsh Parish Church, Kirkton Of Lochalsh sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,130 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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