Uig Parish Church, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Uig Parish Church, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- ruined-step-hawthorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Uig Parish Church, Lewis, HS2 9JD
- OS grid reference
- NB 052 343
- Coordinates
- 58.19871, -7.01849
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Uig Parish Church, built in 1829, serves as the parish church and is located on a new site. It has a T-plan layout and features harled walls with painted ingoes. The church displays a variety of glazing patterns on its multi-paned tall and flat-lintelled windows, with round-arched glazing along the long south wall. The centre gabled vestry may be an addition. Domestic-scale sash and case windows with a 4-pane glazing pattern are found on the gables. A bell is positioned in the east gable-head, beneath a gable canopy, which is similar to those seen at some schools in Lewis, such as Marvig, likely designed to withstand the local climate. The roofs are slated, and skews run horizontally over skewputts.
Inside, the church is well-preserved, featuring a pulpit with a precentor's box and a canopy supported by a pair of moulded slender timber shafts, with box pews on either side. The walls and ceiling are lined with timber V-lining. Each of the three arms has a gallery with splayed links at the angles, supported by columns made of cast iron or timber.
The church is enclosed by a rubble wall with a plain iron gate.
Local climate
Uig Parish Church, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Uig Parish Manse, Lewis
- Walled Garden, Uig Parish Manse, Lewis
- Outbuildings, Uig Lodge, Lewis
- Uig Lodge, Lewis
- Miavaig Bridge, Lewis
- Church Of Scotland, Miavaig, Lewis
- 11A Reef, Uig
- Loch Croistean Centre, Old School and Schoolhouse, Uig, Isle of Lewis
- Clapper Bridge, Doune Carloway, Lewis
- Dun Carloway, Lewis