Latheron Old Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971. 1 related planning application.
Latheron Old Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- fossil-brick-moon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1971
- Address
- Latheron Old Parish Church, KW5 6DG
- OS grid reference
- ND 202 333
- Coordinates
- 58.28114, -3.36204
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Latheron Old Parish Church is a T-plan church built in 1734. It is faced with rendered and lined ashlar, with ashlar surrounds to all windows. A stumpy, square tower, constructed in 1822, projects from the north gable, incorporating a central porch at its base. The tower rises to a square bellcote, featuring simple round-headed arches on each face, angle pilasters, and a facetted domed lead roof set on an octagonal base. Four windows are symmetrically arranged on the south elevation, with single windows on the north wing (added in 1822), and the east and west gables. The windows have 10 panes of glass, and the roof is covered with composite tiles.
The interior has been cleared for use as a Clan Gunn museum. A central octagonal, panelled pulpit stands along the south wall, with flanking stairs. Some bench seating and mural memorials remain.
The church is set within a drystone walled burial ground, featuring three rubble gatepiers that frame pedestrian and carriage entrances. The burial ground contains a closely packed collection of high-quality tombstones dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. A small, gabled rubble watch house is also present.
The land beneath the church is designated as a Scheduled Monument ("Latheron Old Church & The Aisle" - Monument No 3295) and is therefore excluded from this listing. Significant archaeological remains may survive both above and below ground, relating to the church and wider site.
The statutory address for the listed building is Latheron Old Parish Church and Burial Ground, excluding Scheduled Monument No 3295 'Latheron Old Church and The Aisle', Latheron.
Local climate
Latheron Old Parish Church receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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