Old Parish Church, Arrochar is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1971.
Old Parish Church, Arrochar
- WRENN ID
- secret-sandstone-storm
- Grade
- B
- 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
- 14 May 1971
- OS grid reference
- NN 295 036
- Coordinates
- 56.19467, -4.74807
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Parish Church is a ruin dating to 1733, representing fragmentary remains of a former parish church situated within the grounds of the present church in Arrochar. The structure is built of rubble with harl pointing, featuring ashlar margins and dressings. The window and door surrounds are chamfered, and the building originally had a rectangular plan, though now only fragments of the south and west walls remain. Round-headed windows are a prominent feature, along with quoin strips.
The surviving south wall consists of a section rising to the arch head of a round-headed, slightly battered doorway, topped with a scrolled console keystone. The west wall was originally symmetrical, with round-headed windows flanking a tripartite entrance – the door is now blocked. Above the entrance is an elliptical datestone bearing the year 1733, and flanking oculi are also visible.
The current parish church is listed separately. References relating to the site can be found in G Hay’s Architecture of Scottish Post-Reformation Churches (page 254), and in North Clyde Estuary by F A Walker and F Sinclair (pages 117-118). A photostat copy of a plan dating to circa 1774 is held in the Scottish Record Office (RHP 9158).
Local climate
Old Parish Church, Arrochar sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,930 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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