Our Lady Of Sorrows Rc Church Including Boundary Walls And Gatepiers, Garrynamonie

Richard McCarron, 1964-5; engineer Dudley Gibb. Important largely unaltered Modernist single storey and basement roughly square plan church set within spectacular remote landscape with interior with Sacred Heart side altar (now known as Blessed Sacrament altar) with ceramic panel by David Harding. Comprises 3 interlinked brick-built monopitch roofed sections of varying heights and massing with predominantly narrow vertical openings. Black brick deep base course, white calcined flint dry dash, dark grey concrete roof tiles.

WEST (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: tall square plan elevation with near full-height narrow light to outer right. To left low stair projection with monopitch roof with plate glass window above and narrow lights to left and right. Illuminated Latin cross to roof. To left recessed entrance with projecting black curved concrete canopy with narrow light above. Below, projecting 1994 Michael Gilfeddar mural with central panel depicting the Mother of Sorrows and entitled 'MATHAIR NA DORAINNE'. To far left recessed lower monopitch wing containing 2 confessionals and Sacristy.

Predominantly small pane and/or horizontally-set glazing. Ramp leads to wide boarded mahogany entrance door. Further uPVC entrance door to rear.

INTERIOR: near intact interior. Simple whitewashed walls. Impressive sloping ceiling of tongue and grooved pine with exposed Douglas Fir structural beams. Gallery to West rests on simple white piers with tall cubist stair tower to right. Simple horizontally-emphasised timber gallery front. Bespoke timber pews. Altar lit by flanking tall narrow side lights. Circa 1878 painted oak altar from Pro-Cathedral in Oban. Side altar with ceramic mosaic Harding panel. Stations of the Cross with inscribed imagery on local slate. Thermoplastic light grey floor tiles, dark brown quarry tiles to aisles.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: later additions. Section of low boundary wall to W, coursed rubble with flat coping terminating in pier to pedestrian opening with simple metal gate. Pair of square plan coursed rubble gatepiers with flat coping with sloping masonry flanking cattle grid.