Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

BALNAKEIL, DURNESS OLD CHURCH AND BURIAL GROUNDLB486

Status: Removed

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
18/03/1971
Date Removed:
22/09/2016
Local Authority
Highland
Planning Authority
Highland
Parish
Durness
NGR
NC 39106 68663
Coordinates
239106, 968663

Removal Reason

Dual designation

Description

1619, possibly on earlier site, north aisle of 1692. Roofless

T-plan church, rubble with ashlar dressings. Doorway in

centre of east gable with moulded architraves and with gallery

door (probably to former heritor's loft) above 2 blocked

door. Entrance in east elevation of off-centre north aisle

with moulded jambs and worn date (16..) on lintel. Narrow

4-light Gothic mullioned window in centre of north gable, with

central mullion dividing 2 small pointed headed windows

and with transom, the space between left solid. Bellcote at

apex; crowsteps, some with incised detailing; cavetto

skewputts.

Interior; in SE corner, mural tomb in semi-circular mural

recess with crest above dated 1619, all sheltered by later

gabled porch with shouldered lintel to entrance. Half-round

ashlar margins to internal angles of north aisle.

Burial ground; rubble walled burial ground including some

interesting 18th and 19th century tombs. Also memorial to

Rob Doune (Robert Mackay) erected 1827. Square granite

plinth with marble plaques on each face in Latin, Greek,

English and Gaelic standing on stepped base and supporting

stumpy obelisk with apex finial.

Statement of Special Interest

Scheduled Monument. Doorway in N aisle inscribed; 16... HMK A.

Mural tomb of Duncan MacMorroch with epitaph "Duncan

MacMorroch here lies low, Was ill to his friend, waur to

his foe, True to his master in weird and wo. 1623" Said

to have wished to be buried within church but was interred

within wall as his service to his master in quietly getting

rid of troublesome hindrances made him a doubtful candidate

for burial inside church. Robert Don, Doune or Mackay

was known as the Burns of the North, died 1777 aged 64.

Durness Parish included Eddrachillis and Tongue parishes

until 1724.

Scheduled Area 9 October 2001.

References

Bibliography

NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, xv, (1834) p. 102.

IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND, i, (Circa 1858) p. 491.

MacGibbon and Ross, THE ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE OF

SCOTLAND, iii, (1879) pp. 557-9 (plans and illustrations).

George Hay, THE ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH POST-REFORMATION

CHURCHES (1957) pp. 54, 167.

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