Episcopal Church Of St John The Baptist And Burial Ground, Rothiemurchus is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church.
Episcopal Church Of St John The Baptist And Burial Ground, Rothiemurchus
- WRENN ID
- sunken-wicket-swift
- 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 900 111
- Coordinates
- 57.178, -3.82059
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Episcopal Church of St John the Baptist, built between 1929 and 1930 by J Ninian Comper, is a simple aisleless cruciform church oriented east to west. The exterior is harled with self-coloured painted rendered margins. There is a small vestry located in the northwest re-entrant angle. The west gable features a pointed-headed entrance with a plank door, flanked by a 1929 consecration stone, and topped with a bartizan bellcote that is corbelled out at the apex. The church has four-bay flanks with pointed-headed windows that have simple Y-tracery, matching the fenestration of the transepts and chancel. The windows are fitted with leaded glazing, and the roof is covered with slate.
Inside, the nave and transepts have a panelled dado and are filled with pews that have carved shaped ends and slender balustraded rail backs. The communion rails feature flat carved balusters, and there is a scarlet damask baldachino. Surrounding the church is a simple burial ground.
Local climate
Episcopal Church Of St John The Baptist And Burial Ground, Rothiemurchus sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 80 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 62 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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