Iochdar Church, South Uist

Iochdar Church, located in South Uist, was designed by David Mackintosh and completed in 1889. This rectangular-plan mission church features an aisless design and a small porch with a pitched roof. The exterior is constructed from roughly squared snecked rubble with harl-pointing and is harled on the south side. The church has a three-bay nave with square-headed openings that include timber-mullioned traceried windows.

On the entrance elevation, the porch is topped with an iron cross finial and has a modern timber door to the left, with two small bipartite windows to the right. The north elevation displays a gabled design with a large tripartite window at the center. The south elevation, facing the road, features a large untraceried window, while the west elevation has three small bipartite windows arranged regularly.

The windows are made of timber and have leaded multi-pane glazing with square and diamond patterns, some of which are colored. The roof is covered with Ballachulish slate and features overhanging, slightly swept eaves with plain bargeboarding.

The church is enclosed by drystone rubble boundary walls, which include pyramidally-coped square-section gatepiers. Inside, the walls and roof space are lined with boarded timber, and there is a wall plaque commemorating the visit of Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on August 15, 1956.