Our Lady Of The Braes Roman Catholic Church, Polnish is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1996. Church. 1 related planning application.
Our Lady Of The Braes Roman Catholic Church, Polnish
- WRENN ID
- half-kitchen-rush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1996
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NM 751 827
- Coordinates
- 56.88179, -5.69271
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Our Lady Of The Braes Roman Catholic Church is a plain, lancet-Gothic church believed to date from 1872. It is spectacularly situated on a hilltop above Loch Ailort. The church features a steep gabled roof with cross finials and has a rectangular plan with three buttressed bays. The entrance is located in the liturgical west gable, which is actually the east gable, and there is a lower chancel. The building is constructed of rubble and has slate roofs.
Local climate
Our Lady Of The Braes Roman Catholic Church, Polnish sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,490 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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