Church Of Scotland, Keiss is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971. Church.

Church Of Scotland, Keiss

WRENN ID: gentle-vault-sparrow
Grade: B
Local Planning Authority: Highland
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 13 April 1971
Type: Church
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Thomas Telford, 1827; standard Parliamentary T-plan Church.

Harled with tooled ashlar margins and dressings. 4-bay south

elevation with depressed arched entrances in outer bays

(blocked at east) and 2 similar headed windows in centre;

similar windows light end gables and rear wing; cast-iron

Y-tracery and lattice-pane glazing. Birdcage bellcote, with

later cast-iron weathervane, at west gable.

Simple drystone walled enclosure.

Interior; re-cast; entrance vestibule in west end; rear wing

partitioned to form room. Octagonal cusped panelled pulpit

under east window with simple backboard; plain pews.

Carved memorial within vestibule by John Nicolson of Nybster

with roundel depicting Sir Francis Tress Barry of Keiss

Castle, died 1907.

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