Church Of Scotland, Miavaig, Lewis is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1993. Church.
Church Of Scotland, Miavaig, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- unlit-brick-thistle
- Grade
- C
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NB 086 347
- Coordinates
- 58.20533, -6.96095
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Church of Scotland in Miavaig, Lewis, was built around 1843 as a Free Church on reclaimed land at the head of a sheltered sea loch. It is believed to have been reduced in size around 1900 or earlier, and the sizes of the windows and the unusual steel-trussed roof members suggest that significant alterations occurred long after its original construction. The church is a plain gabled box-type structure with dry-dashed walls, painted detailing, and large rectangular windows. It has a slate roof. The west entrance gable features a painted doorway with a window above it, which contains coloured glass, and an apex belfry. Inside, the church has a plain interior with timber V-lining on the walls, and a handsome pulpit, which may be an import, complete with a pilastered back-board and canopy above. The site is bounded by a rubble perimeter and retaining wall.
Local climate
Church Of Scotland, Miavaig, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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