Avoch Parish Church, Braehead, Avoch

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 25/03/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Avoch NGR NH 70116 55228 Coordinates 270116, 855228 — Alexander Ross 1870-1872. Orientated east/west with large Decorated Gothic window west gable and 3 small quatrefoil lights below. East rose window set in pointed opening with 2 narrow lancets below. 4 Buttressed bays of lancets at flanks with vestry at NE. Steeple of idiosyncratic broached form; gabletted belfry stage and small lucarnes above. Base of tower forms porch, its piers having stiff leaf capitals, those flanking doorway also having carved beasts. Dressed red sandstone rubble; pale ashlar dressings, either polished or stugged and broached. Interior has original fittings of red pine and braced collar roof. Stained glass: west window by Barnett of Newcastle. Inside vestry, inset in wall, a pre-Reformation stone Sacrament House measuring 4'2 1/2" x 2'7" overall, with chalice in central label and cupboard below with renewed door and lining, but earlier hinges, measuring 1'10" x 1'2" deep, the whole framed with bead and hollow moulding. — Standing in graveyard and on site of previous church of 1670 mentioned in New Statistical Account, and probably churches prior to that. Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.