Martin's Memorial Church, Francis Street, Stornoway, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Martin's Memorial Church, Francis Street, Stornoway, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- salt-hammer-wind
- 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 November 1980
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Martin's Memorial Church, Francis Street, Stornoway, Lewis, HS1 2NB
- OS grid reference
- NB 424 328
- Coordinates
- 58.20854, -6.38623
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Martin's Memorial Church is a Gothic church built around 1890 to 1900, featuring a corner tower and spire, with halls located at the rear. It occupies a corner site and is enclosed by decorative cast-iron railings. The church is constructed from imported stone, with local stone used in concealed areas, and is made of roughly coursed brown stone, possibly from Loch Broom, with contrasting yellow ashlar dressings and slate roofs.
The main front of the church, facing Kenneth Street, includes a nave and aisles, highlighted by a large geometric-traceried window in the main gable. A stair turret is positioned to the right, while the tower is located on the left. The tower features the main entrance, which has a moulded, pointed arch set in a shallow projecting gable, with nook-shafts that have uncarved capitals. The belfry stage contains louvred bipartite windows, and the decorative top stage is adorned with corbelled and pinnacled tall angle shafts, topped with iron finials and a stone spire.
The flank of the church facing Francis Street has a gable on the left side and tall lancet windows. The main roof sweeps over the side aisle and includes dormer ventilators. An adjoining hall is located at the east gable, which may not be part of the original design due to differing detailing. The two gables facing Francis Street each feature a large roundel set above pointed openings, with the left angle containing openings within a shallow-recessed archway and a pair of timber-traceried windows. The boundary wall steps down to the street and includes an impressive and complete run of decorative cast-iron railings with gates and gatepiers. The interior was not inspected during the 1989 resurvey.
Local climate
Martin's Memorial Church, Francis Street, Stornoway, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Radon risk assessment
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