St Mary's Church, South Ronaldsay is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. 1 related planning application.
St Mary's Church, South Ronaldsay
- WRENN ID
- frozen-string-rye
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Address
- St Mary's Church, South Ronaldsay, KW17 2RW
- OS grid reference
- ND 440 842
- Coordinates
- 58.74234, -2.96912
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Mary's Church in South Ronaldsay is a church built around 1790. It has a rectangular plan and features crowstep gables, along with a simple crowstepped bellcote that houses a bell at the west gable. The exterior is made of harled rubble, and it has timber-framed windows. The roof is a mixture of Welsh and local slate. The interior was recast in 1896 and includes timber pews, a panelled pulpit, and memorial stones.
The churchyard features a gabled gateway built in 1830 and contains several gravestones from the 17th century.
Local climate
St Mary's Church, South Ronaldsay receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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