Duncansburgh Parish Church, The Parade, Fort William

David MacKintosh, Oban, dated 1881. Gothic, orientated

north-south. Bullfaced grey sneck coursed rubble contrasting

tooled red ashlar sandstone dressings. North gable with large hoodmoulded, pointed-headed window with geometric tracery; to

east, square, slightly projecting 3-stage tower with entrance

in base. Dated shouldered lintel, with carved relief of

burning bush in tympanum above under moulded and hoodmoulded pointed-headed architrave. Double leaf plank door with

decorative cast-iron hinges. Angle buttresses rise to

pulvinated string course at base of upper stage, which has

louvred pointed-headed openings in each face decorated with

nook shafts. Corbelled and crenellated wallhead.

Narrow round-headed windows with geometric tracery light

4-bay flanks with alternate buttresses; gabled transepts

project slightly at SE and SW, each with large window similar

to that in north gable. Rose window lights south gable. Stiff

leaf apex finials; slate roof.

Interior; Exaggerated bracing to timber roof. Stained glass

in many windows, dated 1881, 1882 and by the Abbey Studios

between 1973 and 1979.