Scaristamore Parish Church, Harris 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.
Scaristamore Parish Church, Harris
- WRENN ID
- hushed-solder-vermeil
- 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
- Scaristamore Parish Church, Harris, HS3 3HX
- OS grid reference
- NG 007 927
- Coordinates
- 57.82409, -7.04227
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Scaristamore Parish Church, built in 1840, serves as a parish church and showcases Gothic architectural style. The building has a tall, rectangular plan with two bays on the flanks, featuring pointed windows adorned with delicate intersecting tracery. The sash windows include timber astragals, while the two lights on the southwest gable, which flank the pulpit, are simpler, metal-framed, and fixed.
A piend-roofed porch is located on the northeast gable, although the jamb on the rear southeast wall is not original. The church is harled with unmargined openings and has slated roofs topped with skews and ball finials.
Inside, the seating appears to have been altered, arranged in two ranks with a central passageway. The pews at the front and rear are shorter, while the remaining pews seem to have been lengthened, suggesting there may have once been a long communion table in the center. The pulpit is panelled and includes an integral precentor's box beneath, with a hexagonal sounding board above.
Local climate
Scaristamore Parish Church, Harris sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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