Kiltarlity Parish Church

Kiltarlity Parish Church is an 1829 church, with later 19th-century alterations, built in the style of John Robertson of Inverness. The church is a tall, rectangular building oriented east to west. The western gable is constructed of harl-pointed rubble with long and short ashlar dressings around the windows and margins. The main entrance is centrally positioned on the east gable, beneath a round-headed fanlight, with a re-used date stone from 1626 to the right. A similar window is above the entrance, and matching paired windows are located in the western gable above a single-story, canted Minister’s porch. Three long, round-headed windows light the north and south elevations, all featuring multi-pane glazing with intersecting astragals. A small porch is located centrally on the south elevation, below a shortened window. A rectangular bellcote, supporting a coping and originally holding two bells (though only one survives now), sits atop the west gable apex, supported by six small Roman Doric columns. The building is roofed with slate.

The interior is galleried on three sides, with the pulpit located centrally in the west gable. The original panelled front of the galleries has been shortened, creating a larger entrance lobby and a room above. The galleries are supported by chamfered square wooden pilasters, which are original. A late 19th-century open timber roof with cusped detailing is supported by wooden columns rising from the galleries. The interior also features a late 19th-century, cusped panelled circular pulpit set on an hour-glass base, behind a balustrade of similar design, along with contemporary pews.

The church is surrounded by a roughly square, walled burial ground. The drystone walls are topped with rough copes. A pair of square, panelled monolith ashlar gatepiers, topped with square caps, support a pair of simple cast-iron gates; a matching pedestrian entrance is also present. The burial ground contains 19th and 20th-century tombstones.

The site is an ecclesiastical building in active use. It stands on the location of an earlier church built in 1763, which succeeded an earlier Kiltarlity church dating to 1626 at a different location. The site, formerly known as Tom na Croise (the Hillock of the Cross), incorporates a date stone initialled "MWF" (Master William Fraser) dated 1626, which was likely moved from the earlier Kiltarlity Church; Master William Fraser served as Minister from 1618 to 1665.