St Peter's Church, South Ronaldsay is a Grade A listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Peter's Church, South Ronaldsay
- WRENN ID
- old-stone-mallow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- ND 470 908
- Coordinates
- 58.80184, -2.9178
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Peter's Church in South Ronaldsay dates back to 1642 and was renovated and re-roofed in 1801. It is a rectangular-plan gabled church with four bays, featuring four arched windows and an off-centre round-arched doorway on the southeast elevation. Above the door, there are date stones from 1642 and 1801. The southwest gable has an arched window and a small bellcote that houses a bell. On the northeast gable, there is a 19th-century lean-to porch or vestry. The church is finished with roughcast harl and ashlar skews. It has timber sash and case windows with a gothick-arched glazing pattern in the tympanum. The roof is covered with graded Orkney slate and has a stone ridge, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
St Peter's Church, South Ronaldsay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% 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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