High Church, Goathill Road, Stornoway, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 1993. Church.
High Church, Goathill Road, Stornoway, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-vestry-indigo
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1993
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NB 427 330
- Coordinates
- 58.21094, -6.38213
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
High Church is a 19th century Gothic church located at the corner of Goathill Road in Stornoway, Lewis. The building has a rectangular plan featuring a central gabled panel and a belfry with pinnacles on the main gabled front facing Matheson Road. It includes tall lancet windows throughout, although these have been replaced with modern versions. The exterior is finished with dry-dash and painted margins, while the belfry is constructed of yellow ashlar and set above a shallow out-set. Inside, there is a single gallery light in the gable-head, and a hall adjoins the church at the rear. The interior features a three-sided gallery supported by cast-iron columns, with a panelled timber front. The church is enclosed by a low boundary wall topped with wrought-iron railings that have a thistle detail, and there are circular-section gatepiers at the front with conical caps.
Local climate
High Church, Goathill Road, Stornoway, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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