Churchyard, Edinkillie Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Church.
Churchyard, Edinkillie Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- vast-rotunda-dust
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NJ 019 465
- Coordinates
- 57.49872, -3.63744
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Edinkillie Parish Church is a simple rectangular church built in 1741 and renovated in 1813. It features a long six-bay south elevation, harled with ashlar margins and dressings. The rear has three irregular piended or gabled projections, with entrances located in the outer return re-entrant angles and a window above each entrance, which also houses a stairwell and vestry. There is a later single keystoned oculus in the outer bays. The south elevation has six square-headed symmetrical windows, while each gable has a round-headed keystoned gallery window with block imposts.
The church has multi-pane glazing, a simple bellcote at the west gable, and a finial at the east. It has a slate roof and a mural memorial plaque at the base of the west gable.
Inside, the church features a galleried interior on three sides, which is narrow at the south and largely infilled by a 1941 organ. The central south wall has a panelled demi-octagonal pulpit with a similarly shaped sounding board and a panelled back-board flanked by fluted pilasters. The pews are plain pine, and the gallery front has simple shallow panelling. There is also a 1941 Communion table. A simple pine dado lines the entrance passage, which accommodates a re-set stone armorial dated 166?6, initialled MD, with a worn inscription.
Adjacent to the church is an early 19th-century rubble hexagonal watch house, which has a central door in the north face and flanking windows, a rear wallhead stack, and a facetted local slate roof topped with an apex ball finial. The former manse garden wall abuts the watch house on each side.
The burial ground is enclosed by a drystone wall, with squat round rubble piers flanking the entrance, each capped with round stones. It contains 18th and 19th-century tombstones.
Local climate
Churchyard, Edinkillie Parish Church 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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 0.3°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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