Presbytery, St Michael's Chruch, Ardkenneth, South Uist is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Presbytery, St Michael's Chruch, Ardkenneth, South Uist
- WRENN ID
- ragged-vestry-claret
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NF 758 458
- Coordinates
- 57.38759, -7.39644
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Michael's Church in Ardkenneth, South Uist, was built between 1826 and 1829. It features a church and a two-storey, three-bay presbytery, all under one long roof with a rectangular plan and harled exterior. The church has three bays with tall, depressed-arched windows that have small panes and intersecting tracery on the north side, while the south side has modern glazing. There is a gabled porch on the west side and a cross finial on the roof, which is covered in slate.
Inside the church, there is a triple-arched east end supported by two tall, bulbous columns. A small-scale replica of Hew Lorimer's statue is located to the north of the church.
The presbytery features a central gabled porch on the north side, plate glass sash windows, and a modern kitchen addition on the south side. There is a stack at the gable. The property is partly enclosed by rubble-built walls, with corniced square gatepiers to the north that have pyramidal caps, also made of rubble.
Local climate
Presbytery, St Michael's Chruch, Ardkenneth, South Uist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 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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