Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

KINLOCHMOIDART, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST FINNANLB316

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
23/06/1980
Supplementary Information Updated
16/02/2018
Local Authority
Highland
Planning Authority
Highland
Parish
Arisaig And Moidart
NGR
NM 71027 72789
Coordinates
171027, 772789

Description

Alexander Ross, 1858-60, with vestry (also A Ross) 1886. Simple rectangular church, nave and slightly lower chancel orientated east/west. All grey rubble with contrasting tooled sandstone dressings. Projecting gabled porch with pointed headed entrance approached by flight of steps at southwest. The nave and chancel south elevation are lit by 3 small pointed headed lancet windows with 2 similar in the west gable. A triple lancet lights the east gable of chancel. There are apex crosses at the east of the nave and chancel and also porch. There is a small bellcote at the west apex. There is a steeply pitched slate roof with crowsteps. Small lean-to vestry (1886) at north of chancel.

Interior; plain interior; pointed-headed arch to chancel; painted altar front; wrought-iron communion rails; stained glass in east windows commemorating founders of church; Gothic panelled pulpit; simple square stone font.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The church was founded by William and Sarah MacDonald Robertson of Kinlochmoidart House. William McDonald Robertson had married Sarah Adams, daughter of James Beck, at Allersley Park, Warwickshire on 19 April 1828. The church has various mural memorials to the Stewarts, also of Kinlochmoidart House.

In the south wall there are two brightly coloured stained glass windows (The Annunciation of the Shepherds and The Cricifixion) by Jemima Blackburn, in around 1859 and 1873.

References

Bibliography

National Monuments Record of Scotland. EPISCOPAL CHURCH YEAR BOOK (1915-16) p.139.

Gifford, J. (1992) The Buildings of Scotland, Highlands and Islands. London: Penguin. p.252.

About Listed Buildings

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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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