Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

DAVIOT PARISH CHURCH OF SCOTLAND AND BURIAL GROUNDLB1700

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
05/10/1971
Supplementary Information Updated
01/11/2017
Local Authority
Highland
Planning Authority
Highland
Parish
Daviot And Dunlichity
NGR
NH 72344 39441
Coordinates
272344, 839441

Description

Dated 1826. Rectangular harled church, with tooled ashlar

margins and dressings. Tooled and polished ashlar tower at

west gable.

Church orientated north/south, with roundheaded entrance and

similar gallery window in centre of north gable; double leaf

panelled door; apex ball finial. Long east and west

elevations dominated by centre Venetian window flanked by

long round-headed windows with intermediate buttressings

and small, later vestry window at SE; Crenellated wallhead

with stumpy angle pinnacles to east and west elevations;

ashlar angle margins; dated rainwater heads; slate roof.

Slender square, 5-storey tower abuts south gable; all tooled

and polished ashlar. Narrow door in base of tall ground floor

with small windows high in return gables, and stepped band

course from which rise 3 further, narrower stages, defined by

band courses and with round-headed or bull's eye lights. 4th

stage crowned with wide moulded cornice with angle ball

finials, from which narrow 5th storey rised, with square

louvred windows set in margined round-headed recesses in each

face, deep moulded cornice with stumpy angle pinnacles and

ashlar spire terminating in ball finialled gilded weather-

cock, from which the N, S, E, W, pointers are missing.

Interior; re-cast interior, lowered ceiling and west gallery,

new pews and fittings.

Burial Ground: roughly coped rubble walled burial ground

surrounds church; entrance flanked by simple square rubble

piers with shaped caps. 18th and 19th century tombs.

Statement of Special Interest

Building in ecclesiastical use as such. Daviot Parish joined

with Dunlichty in 1618. Church built at cost of $1,000 on

site of former church and free-standing bell tower, the

latter collapsed in 1865. Hillside site called Cnoc ant

Sagairt, the Priest's hill.

References

Bibliography

NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, xiv (1838), pp.519, 522. Macibbon

Ross, THE CASTELLATED AND DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTLAND,

v (1892) p.221. George Hay, THE ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH POST-REFORMATION CHURCHES 1600-1843 (1957), P.259.

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)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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