Stenness Church is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 December 1977. Church.

Stenness Church

WRENN ID
quartered-cornice-crimson
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 December 1977
Type
Church
OS grid reference
HY 310 124
Coordinates
58.99365, -3.20113
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Stenness Church, built around 1910, is an oblong structure with a pebble-dashed exterior and a slated roof featuring gabled ends. The building includes a belfry and pointed windows, as well as a vestry.

Local climate

Stenness Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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