Parish Church, Kilmuir Easter is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. 1 related planning application.
Parish Church, Kilmuir Easter
- WRENN ID
- night-rubblework-bistre
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The parish church at Kilmuir Easter dates to 1798. It incorporates the remains of an earlier church, which now functions as a burial vault and tower situated at the east gable, bearing a datestone indicating 1616. The church itself is constructed of coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings and long and short ashlar quoins. It features two round-headed windows in the centre of the south elevation, with a blocked minister's door between them. Two similar windows were added later on the south-east side. The entrance is on the southwest side, above which are two small round-headed gallery windows and a single window in the west gable. The long windows have tracery, and there are stone ball finials to the apexes. Two ridge vents are present, and the church is roofed with slate.
The burial vault and tower are gabled, built of rubble with ashlar dressings, and contain a chamfered ashlar doorway. Two small, rectangular gable windows are located on each side of a projecting round bell tower, which rises above the slated vault roof. The tower’s base is of rubble, with vents in the walling, and the upper portion is slightly corbelled out, featuring decorative feathering. Four rectangular openings rise through the wallhead, each with decorative shaped pediments. Four small oval lucarnes are set into the conical ashlar roof, topped with a stumpy finial. Datestones and initial stones are visible at the wallhead. The tower is initialled GMR with a Munro eagle on a shield between the letters. A second inscription reads "Beigit 1616."
The surrounding burial ground is enclosed by a rubble wall topped with tooled ashlar cope. The entrance is marked by square, tooled ashlar gate piers with pyramidal caps. The church and burial ground remain in ecclesiastical use.
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