Parish Church, Barvas, Lewis is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1993. Church. 1 related planning application.
Parish Church, Barvas, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- standing-minaret-clover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1993
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church, Barvas, Lewis, HS2 0QY
- OS grid reference
- NB 359 494
- Coordinates
- 58.35344, -6.51564
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Parish Church in Barvas, Lewis, is one of a series of three nearly identical churches, with the others located at Garrabost and Cross. It was originally a United Free Church, built around 1910. The church features a large box-type structure with a piend roof and tall, narrow round-arched windows. It has five bays on the flanks and an entrance front on the west side, which includes a central door flanked by single windows and topped by a belfry. There is a wallhead stack on the opposite wall, positioned above a low vestry outshot. The original windows have small-paned glazing, while the roof is covered in slate and the church has modern dry-ash.
Local climate
Parish Church, Barvas, Lewis sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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