Stornoway 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 1991. Church.
Stornoway Parish Church, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- western-glass-starling
- 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 1991
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NB 425 329
- Coordinates
- 58.21028, -6.38392
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Stornoway Parish Church is a Gothic church originally built in 1794, which has undergone significant remodeling since then. It was repaired in 1831 and received additions in 1885, with some later work evident. The church features a gabled, tall, rectangular plan with a full-height narrow jamb on the south side, topped by a tall belfry with a finial and leaded windows. There is a parapetted square porch located in the re-entrant angle. The flanks have tall windows with Y-tracery and key-stoning, which may be Gothic tracery set within Georgian round arches. The west gable includes a row of small lights at ground level and a larger round-arched gallery window above, filled with simplified loop tracery. The exterior is harled with ashlar margins and has a slate roof. There is a low rear wing and quoins on the east side, along with a low boundary wall and plain iron railings. The interior was not inspected during the 1989 resurvey.
Local climate
Stornoway Parish Church, 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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