Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

KILCHOAN, ARDNAMURCHAN PARISH CHURCH OF SCOTLAND AND ENCLOSING WALLS.LB507

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
20/07/1971
Local Authority
Highland
Planning Authority
Highland
Parish
Ardnamurchan
NGR
NM 48835 63808
Coordinates
148835, 763808

Description

William Burn, 1827-31. T-plan church, rubble with tooled

ashlar dressings; centre gabled wing projects from south

elevation; long rear (north) elevation. South gable

terminates with small rectangular tower with paired

round-headed louvred openings in long sides, and single

openings in east and west short sides. Tower now capped with

modern roofing felt in place of former spire. Depressed

pointed headed doorways in centre of south, east and west

(blocked) gables; similarly detailed windows, 1 in centre

of east and south gables, blocked in west, and 1 each in

south elevation and 4 in long north wall; painted wooden

transom and mullion, shallow Y-tracery, lattice-pane glazing.

2 small round headed windows light east and west elevations

of centre gable, some windows blind in ground floor, west.

Diagonal buttresses to all angles; diagonally set paired

stacks at east wallhead of centre wing; exaggerated

skewputts; slate roof.

Small burial site with retaining walls in SW re-entrant

angle.

Interior; simple galleried interior with original pulpit in

centre of north wall. Tall hexagonal and panelled pulpit

with simple panelled backboard and hexagonal sounding board

decorated with slender finials and pendants; pulpit stairs

with polished wooden handrail and simple balusters. Plain

wooden fronted galleries fill 3 arms of church, reached by

stairs fronting each entrance. 2 iron lamp holders fixed to

south gallery ledge; entrance from south gallery leads to

former Heritor's retiring room.

Enclosing wall; simple drystone enclosing walls surround

church; plain copes.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Present

building replaced former building in graveyard to NW.

References

Bibliography

NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, vii (1938) p.157. Royal Commission

on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland,

ARGYLL, iii (1980) p.144, pl.25.

George Hay THE ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH POST-REFORMATION

CHURCH 1560-1843, (1957) p.246.

Original plans dated 1827 in National Monuments Record

of Scotland.

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.

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