Loreto, Church Of Our Lady And St Columba, Newtonmore Road, Kingussie

The Church of Our Lady and St Columba, located on Newtonmore Road in Kingussie, was designed by Norman Dick of Sir John Burnet, Son and Dick, and built between 1931 and 1932. This church features a rectangular tower at the east and a small gabled Lady Chapel at the northwest. The entrance porch projects from the west gable.

The building is constructed of grey rubble with contrasting tooled sandstone ashlar dressings. The entrance porch has timber frame detailing and includes double-leaf reeded plank doors with ornamental Arts and Crafts iron hinges, flanked by side lights with stained glass, and a statuette above, sheltered by projecting bargeboarded gables. The south flank has four bays with paired round-headed windows. The square tower has paired rounded-headed hoodmoulded louvred vents on each face of the upper stage, a blocked eaves band, and a pyramidal roof topped with an apex finial. There is also a cross finial at the west gable, and the roofs are covered with slate.

Inside, there is a round-headed chancel arch that matches a similar arch framing the entrance lobby at the west. The east chancel wall features triple Romanesque lights, while a pair of similar lights is located in the Lady Chapel to the right of the chancel. The nave has a braced timber ceiling, while the chancel and Lady Chapel have boarded ceilings with a painted frieze in the chapel. Additional interior features include a stone font, stained glass, and Italianate blue and cream glazed pottery Stations of the Cross.

Adjacent to the church is a presbytery built between 1950 and 1960. This single-storey, north-facing, three-bay dwelling is linked to the church at the rear and is constructed of grey rubble similar to the church, with simulated tooled sandstone ashlar dressings. The gabled northwest bay features an entrance in the re-entrant angle with a flanking light, modern glazing, a coped end stack, and a slate roof. A low coped rubble wall encloses both the church and the presbytery.