Presbytery, Church Of Our Lady Star Of The Sea, Castlebay, Barra is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980. Church.

Presbytery, Church Of Our Lady Star Of The Sea, Castlebay, Barra

WRENN ID
secret-bracket-ivory
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 January 1980
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

George Woulfe Brennan of Oban, architect. Erected 1888. Aisled Gothic church with 4-stage square tower, presbytery at east alongside.

Snecked and squared rubble, ashlar dressings.

CHURCH: tower with stepped angle buttresses, upper stages off-set; east- facing door, mostly hood-moulded pointed openings above, louvered at top (belfry) stage, clock to 3 faces of stage below; crenellated parapet enclosing pyramidal roof.

3-light gable windows both in hood-moulded pointed panel; aisle windows single pointed lights. Cross finials.

Interior: aisle arcades depressed arches on octagonal columns; leaded gable windows; roof timbers on corbels.

PRESBYTERY: 2 storeys; asymmetrical plan; square-headed openings; plate glass sash windows; door in south gable, and 2 windows either floor. Wall-head stack to east on ramped base, flanking gabled dormerheads; long single storey lean-to at north.

Roofs mostly slated.

Enclosed by rubble built wall, cast-iron gates and gatepiers to the SE.

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