Ardnamurchan Parish Church Of Scotland, Kilchoan is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Church.
Ardnamurchan Parish Church Of Scotland, Kilchoan
- WRENN ID
- lesser-courtyard-wren
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1971
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ardnamurchan Parish Church of Scotland, designed by William Burn between 1827 and 1831, is a T-plan church constructed of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The church features a centrally gabled wing that projects from the south elevation and has a long rear (north) elevation. The south gable is topped with a small rectangular tower that has paired round-headed louvred openings on the long sides and single openings on the east and west short sides. The tower is currently capped with modern roofing felt, replacing a former spire.
The church has depressed pointed-headed doorways at the center of the south, east, and west (blocked) gables, along with similarly styled windows—one in the center of the east and south gables, blocked in the west, and one each in the south elevation and four in the long north wall. These windows feature painted wooden transoms and mullions, shallow Y-tracery, and lattice-pane glazing. There are also two small round-headed windows lighting the east and west elevations of the center gable, with some ground floor windows on the west being blind. The building is supported by diagonal buttresses at all angles and has diagonally set paired stacks at the east wallhead of the center wing, along with exaggerated skewputts and a slate roof.
A small burial site with retaining walls is located in the southwest re-entrant angle of the church.
Inside, the church has a simple galleried interior with the original pulpit located in the center of the north wall. The tall hexagonal and panelled pulpit features a simple panelled backboard and a hexagonal sounding board adorned with slender finials and pendants. The pulpit stairs have a polished wooden handrail and simple balusters. Plain wooden fronted galleries occupy three arms of the church and are accessed by stairs at each entrance. Two iron lamp holders are fixed to the south gallery ledge, and an entrance from the south gallery leads to the former Heritor's retiring room.
The church is enclosed by simple drystone walls with plain copes.
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