West Parish Church, Huntly Street, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Church.

West Parish Church, Huntly Street, Inverness

WRENN ID
idle-courtyard-willow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 June 1981
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NH 663 453
Coordinates
57.47835, -4.23082
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

West Parish Church, located on Huntly Street in Inverness, was built in 1840 and is designed in a classical style using ashlar stone. The church features two storeys and a three-bay front, with a prominent central section that has a pediment and a giant distyle in-antis Ionic order. The flanking sections are constructed of rubble and consist of six bays, with the fifth bay being advanced to create a transeptal feature that encloses a gallery stair. At the west end of the church, there is a square-plan tower made of rubble, topped with an ashlar parapet that is adorned with urns and an octagonal ogee-roofed belfry. The interior is plain and has been re-seated and renovated around 1895, and it features modern stained glass windows.

Local climate

West Parish Church, Huntly Street, Inverness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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