Cathedral Of The Isles And Collegiate Church Of The Holy Spirit, College Street, Millport, Great Cumbrae Island is a Grade A listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Cathedral.

Cathedral Of The Isles And Collegiate Church Of The Holy Spirit, College Street, Millport, Great Cumbrae Island

WRENN ID
dreaming-chancel-frost
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 April 1971
Type
Cathedral
OS grid reference
NS 165 552
Coordinates
55.75565, -4.9245
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Cathedral of the Isles and Collegiate Church of the Holy Spirit, located on College Street in Millport on Great Cumbrae Island, was begun in 1849 and remains incomplete. Designed by architect William Butterfield, it was consecrated as the Episcopal Cathedral of Argyll and the Isles in 1876.

Local climate

Cathedral Of The Isles And Collegiate Church Of The Holy Spirit, College Street, Millport, Great Cumbrae Island sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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