Daviot Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and Burial Ground, Daviot is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church.

Daviot Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and Burial Ground, Daviot

WRENN ID
crumbling-belfry-aspen
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Daviot Parish Church, a Church of Scotland building, was constructed in 1826. It is a rectangular church with a harled exterior, featuring tooled ashlar margins and dressings. At the west gable, there is a tower made of tooled and polished ashlar.

The church is oriented north to south and has a round-headed entrance, along with a similar gallery window at the center of the north gable. The entrance includes a double leaf panelled door topped with an apex ball finial. The long east and west elevations are highlighted by a central Venetian window, flanked by long round-headed windows and intermediate buttresses. There is a small, later vestry window at the southeast. The wallhead is crenellated, with short angle pinnacles on the east and west elevations, and features ashlar angle margins and dated rainwater heads. The roof is slate.

The slender square tower, which is five stories tall, is attached to the south gable and is entirely made of tooled and polished ashlar. It has a narrow door at the base of the tall ground floor, with small windows high in the return gables. The tower features a stepped band course from which three narrower stages rise, defined by band courses and round-headed or bull's eye lights. The fourth stage is topped with a wide moulded cornice and angle ball finials, leading to a narrow fifth storey with square louvred windows set in margined round-headed recesses on each face. This stage has a deep moulded cornice with stumpy angle pinnacles and an ashlar spire that ends in a ball finial topped with a gilded weathercock, although the directional pointers for north, south, east, and west are missing.

Inside, the church has been recast with a lowered ceiling and a west gallery, along with new pews and fittings.

Surrounding the church is a burial ground enclosed by roughly coped rubble walls. The entrance is flanked by simple square rubble piers with shaped caps, and the burial ground contains tombs from the 18th and 19th centuries.

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