Parish Church, Howmore, South Uist is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.
Parish Church, Howmore, South Uist
- WRENN ID
- quartered-corridor-rain
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church, Howmore, South Uist, HS8 5SH
- OS grid reference
- NF 756 364
- Coordinates
- 57.3026, -7.38767
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Parish Church in Howmore, South Uist, was designed by Archibald Scott of Edinburgh in 1837 and built in the 1840s. It is a plain, three-bay, rectangular-plan church with a former vestry located at the west end of the north wall and a modern hall adjoining it. The exterior is harled, featuring round-headed openings, a door, and a gallery window in the east gable beneath a gabled apex belfry. The church has tall windows with Y-tracery in each bay, straight skews, and gabletted skewputts, topped with a slate roof.
Inside, there is a long central communion table that runs the full length of the church and has a marbled top. The pulpit is positioned on the west wall and has steps on either side, while the gallery at the east is supported by two simple columns.
The church is enclosed by rubble-built walls that partly enclose the Dr MacLean monument at the north end, which is dated 1861, designed in Gothic style, and made of white marble.
Local climate
Parish Church, Howmore, South Uist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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