Ardnamurchan Parish Church of Scotland, Kilchoan

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 20/07/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Ardnamurchan NGR NM 48835 63808 Coordinates 148835, 763808 — William Burn, 1827-31. T-plan church, rubble with tooled ashlar dressings; centre gabled wing projects from south elevation; long rear (north) elevation. South gable terminates with small rectangular tower with paired round-headed louvred openings in long sides, and single openings in east and west short sides. Tower now capped with modern roofing felt in place of former spire. Depressed pointed headed doorways in centre of south, east and west (blocked) gables; similarly detailed windows, 1 in centre of east and south gables, blocked in west, and 1 each in south elevation and 4 in long north wall; painted wooden transom and mullion, shallow Y-tracery, lattice-pane glazing. 2 small round headed windows light east and west elevations of centre gable, some windows blind in ground floor, west. Diagonal buttresses to all angles; diagonally set paired stacks at east wallhead of centre wing; exaggerated skewputts; slate roof. Small burial site with retaining walls in SW re-entrant angle. Interior; simple galleried interior with original pulpit in centre of north wall. Tall hexagonal and panelled pulpit with simple panelled backboard and hexagonal sounding board decorated with slender finials and pendants; pulpit stairs with polished wooden handrail and simple balusters. Plain wooden fronted galleries fill 3 arms of church, reached by stairs fronting each entrance. 2 iron lamp holders fixed to south gallery ledge; entrance from south gallery leads to former Heritor's retiring room. Enclosing wall; simple drystone enclosing walls surround church; plain copes. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Present building replaced

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.