Carloway Free Church is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1993. Church.

Carloway Free Church

WRENN ID
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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
OS grid reference
NB 205 424
Coordinates
58.28189, -6.76868
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Carloway Free Church, dated 1884, is a box-type Gothic church featuring pointed openings. The entrance is located in the west gable front and has a modern door. Above the entrance, there is a gallery-level window with Y-tracery made of timber, and the church has an apex belfry. The exterior is harled, and it retains its original glazing, which consists mostly of small-paned sashes. The church has six-bay flanks and a slated roof. It is enclosed by a rubble-built perimeter wall.

Local climate

Carloway Free Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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