Burial Ground, Laggan Parish Church, Laggan Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Burial Ground, Laggan Parish Church, Laggan Bridge
- WRENN ID
- distant-render-mist
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NN 615 943
- Coordinates
- 57.01923, -4.28253
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a burial ground associated with Laggan Parish Church, built in 1785 and partially rebuilt and likely raised in 1842. The church itself is a tall, rectangular structure constructed from grey granite rubble with tooled granite ashlar dressings. Entrances are located in the outer bays of the long north elevation, with a shallow, gabled porch that has a round-headed doorway masking the northwest entrance.
The south elevation features three long, round-headed windows. The east gable has a slightly advanced central bay with a pair of similarly headed windows (added in 1842) and an oculus above. The west gable is also advanced in the centre, featuring a pair of round-headed lancets, and similar fenestration in the outer bays. Both gable heads rise above saw-toothed skews, with a bellcote at the west end and a finial on the east. The windows contain lattice pane glazing, with coloured decoration in the east windows, all beneath a slate roof.
The entrance lobby is floored with local pottery tiles, dating from approximately 1982. The interior was recast in 1842 and features galleries supported on wooden cluster columns that rise to the ceiling and terminate in crude scalloped capitals. A hexagonal pulpit is situated between the east gable windows, above a semi-circular clerk's desk with a narrow backboard and hexagonal sounding-board. Stairways serve the clerk’s desk and pulpit on both sides.
The associated burial ground is enclosed by a rubble wall with a shaped, tooled rubble cope. A pair of square, tooled rubble gate piers with ball finials on attenuated stems support a pair of cast-iron spearhead carriage gates. The building remains in use as an ecclesiastical building.
Local climate
Burial Ground, Laggan Parish Church, Laggan Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 83 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 66 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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