Nigg United Presbyterian Church, Chapelhill is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Church.
Nigg United Presbyterian Church, Chapelhill
- WRENN ID
- dark-outpost-starling
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NH 824 736
- Coordinates
- 57.73694, -3.97563
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Nigg United Presbyterian Church, built by Alexander Ross between 1871 and 1872, features a rectangular plan with a square tower at the center of the north gable, which rises one stage above the ridge. The church has four-bay flanks and is constructed of coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings.
The tower includes a round-headed entrance with a rusticated and battered base, flanked by paired lancets in the wall face and hoodmoulded quatrefoils above. In the upper stage of the tower, there are paired louvred round-headed windows set within a panel that has corbelled detailing. The roof is shallow pyramidal with projecting eaves that are raised over blind occuli in each wallhead, and it features a cast-iron weather vane.
The north gable is adorned with angle pilasters and corbelled wallhead detailing, with two round-headed windows flanking the tower. These are linked to four similar windows in the flanks by a continuous cill-band. The church has lattice glazing and a slate roof.
Local climate
Nigg United Presbyterian Church, Chapelhill receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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