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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