St Michael's Chapel, Glen Luss is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1980. Memorial.
St Michael's Chapel, Glen Luss
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-pillar-rush
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1980
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- NS 336 941
- Coordinates
- 56.11078, -4.67693
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Michael's Chapel in Glen Luss likely has 15th century foundations, with a memorial and railings added in 1852. The chapel features low rubble foundations that are now overgrown and has a rectangular plan. At the center, there is a simple memorial stone surrounded by railings. The memorial is made of granite and has simple scrolled ashlar moulding. It includes an inscription in Latin on one side, dated 1852, and a Gaelic inscription on the opposite side.
Local climate
St Michael's Chapel, Glen Luss sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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