Church Of Scotland, Cross, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1993. Church.
Church Of Scotland, Cross, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- south-quartz-tarn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1993
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NB 505 619
- Coordinates
- 58.47406, -6.27957
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Church of Scotland in Cross, Lewis, is one of a series of three nearly identical churches built around 1910, with the others located at Garrabost and Barvas. This large box-type church features a piend roof and is designed with tall, narrow round-arched lights arranged in five by three bays. The entrance is located on the west side, showcasing a wide arched doorway positioned between the windows, with a wall-head belfry above. The exterior is finished in dry dash with painted ingoes, and the roof is slated with a simplified axial ventilator; the glazing is modern. A vestry or session house is attached to the east side.
Inside, there is a gallery on the west wall supported by cast-iron columns, with the pulpit located opposite and featuring an arcaded panelled front. The perimeter wall is mostly made of rubble and is dry-dashed on the west side.
Local climate
Church Of Scotland, Cross, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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