Paible Free Church, North Uist is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 April 1985. Church.

Paible Free Church, North Uist

WRENN ID
secret-lime-grove
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Constituency
Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 April 1985
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NF 740 684
Coordinates
57.5883, -7.45676
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Paible Free Church, built in 1858, is a rectangular-plan, two-bay church located in North Uist. The church features pointed openings, with windows and a fanlight showcasing delicate intersecting tracery. The exterior is pebble-dashed, and there is a door on the north gable beneath a datestone and a gallery window, along with two windows in the south gable. The building has straight skews and a slate roof.

Inside, the church has a gallery with a plain boarded and panelled front on three sides, supported by cast-iron columns. The pulpit is designed with a cusped-panelled front.

The church is situated at the northeast end of a rubble-walled enclosure. The walls are rubble-built, but the wall at the door has been replaced with a modern pebble-dashed wall featuring a wrought-iron railing.

Local climate

Paible Free Church, North Uist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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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