Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

Tarbat Discovery Centre (former Tarbat Old Church) including the Burial Ground and excluding Scheduled Monument No 12793 ‘Portmahomack monastic settlement, 95 m SSW of Tarbat West Church’, Tarbatness Road, PortmahomackLB14098

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Date Added
27/03/1971
Last Date Amended
27/08/2015
Local Authority
Highland
Planning Authority
Highland
Parish
Tarbat
NGR
NH 91485 84020
Coordinates
291485, 884020

Description

1756 incorporating some earlier work. Alterations and repairs, Andrew Maitland, 1864; partial re-seating, Alexander Annandale, Invergordon, 1891; further alterations, A Maitland and Sons, 1921. Long, low T-plan church, harled with painted tooler margins. Orientated east/west with aisle to north. Slightly irregular fenestration including 3 long windows in centre of south elevation with small off-centre minister's porch with piended roof. Gallery doors approached by flights of steps in outer bays; similar flight to rear. Mainly 4-pane glazing. Square stumpy ashlar belfry at west gable apex, with ashlar ogee roof with diminutive lucarnes and stone finial. Long rectangular opening in each face with moulded jambs, and moulded cornices above and below. Slate roof; stone ridge.

Interior: rear gallery now blocked; interior re-cast and re-furbished.

Burial ground enclosed by dry stone wall. Contains some fine tombstones and memorials dating from the late 17th century onwards.

Statement of Special Interest

The ground beneath the Tarbat Old Church Burial Ground is scheduled as 'Portmahomack monastic settlement, 95m SSW of Tarbat West Church' is Scheduled Monument No 12793 and is excluded from the listing. Significant upstanding and below-ground archaeological remains may survive as part of and in addition to the structures and features described above.

Listed building record and statutory address updated in 2015. Previously listed as 'Portmahomack Tarbat Old Church and Burial Ground.'

References

Bibliography

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland: http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore.html CANMORE ID 15662 & 15664

Statistical Account (1791-99) Tarbat, County of Ross and Cromarty, Vol.6. 430.

Hay, G. (1957) The Architecture Of Scottish Post - Reformation Churches. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gifford, J. (1992) Buildings of Scotland: Highland and Islands. London: Penguin Books. p. 444-5

Inverness Advertiser, 12 April 1864.

Inverness Courier, 11 August 1891.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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