Three Lychgates And Walls Surrounding The Churchyard To South, West And North Of Church Of St Columba

Three lychgates and walls surround the churchyard to the south, west, and north of the Church of St Columba. These structures date from the 19th century and are made of granite and slatestone rubble, with granite dressings.

At the southeast entrance to the churchyard in Market Place, there is a flight of six wide granite steps, flanked by a rubble wall on the right that has chamfered granite coping, standing about one metre high and stepped in two ranges. There are short sections of rubble wall on each side of the gateway, which features 20th-century wooden gates and a central granite coffin rest made of two flat slabs of granite. The churchyard walls extend approximately 40 metres to the west, standing about 1½ metres high, with chamfered granite coping and weathered buttresses at intervals. The wall ends with a pair of granite ashlar Gothic piers, square in plan and about 3 metres high, which have weathered buttresses on the outer sides and blank quatrefoils at the top with plain pyramidal caps. These piers mark the entrance to West Street.

A similar wall continues running north/south for about 100 metres along the west side of the churchyard, decreasing in height towards the north. The wall then returns along the north side of the churchyard for about 15 metres to the north lychgate. This lychgate is constructed of granite ashlar and features a pier with a pyramidal cap on each side of a cusped four-centred arch, topped with a gable that has raised coped verges and a finial. It also includes a 20th-century wooden gate.