St Columba's Church, High Street, Kingussie is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church.
St Columba's Church, High Street, Kingussie
- WRENN ID
- rough-porch-gold
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NH 760 006
- Coordinates
- 57.08057, -4.04601
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Columba's Church, located on High Street in Kingussie, was built in 1824 with later alterations. It is a simple rectangular church with a harled exterior, oriented east to west, featuring porches at both the east and west gables. The church has tooled grey granite dressings and a symmetrical south front that includes four long round-headed windows with simple Y-tracery and leaded glazing. There is a similar window, likely from the late 19th century, in the north elevation, flanked by narrower windows with similar detailing. At the apex of the west gable, there is a bellcote topped with a small ball finial, and the church is covered by a slate roof.
The interior has been recast and refitted in 1924 after a fire, and again in 1971. It features a gallery at the west end and a low octagonal pulpit.
Surrounding the church is a rubble-walled burial ground that contains late 18th and 19th century tombstones. The entrance from High Street is flanked by a pair of re-used early to mid-18th century square tooled grey granite gate piers, which have a moulded cornice and stepped caps supporting small attenuated ball finials.
Local climate
St Columba's Church, High Street, Kingussie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 86 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 68 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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