Old Parish Church, Urquhart is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Burial ground.

Old Parish Church, Urquhart

WRENN ID
silver-groin-coral
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 August 1981
Type
Burial ground
OS grid reference
NJ 288 626
Coordinates
57.64809, -3.19354
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Parish Church in Urquhart features a burial ground enclosed by a rubble and coped stone wall, marking the site of a previous church. Within the grounds, there are several notable memorials from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Local climate

Old Parish Church, Urquhart sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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