Bona Free Church, Dochfour

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Inverness And Bona NGR NH 60241 38564 Coordinates 260241, 838564 — Circa 1846 with later 19th century (probably 1865) alterations. Plain rectangular church with long N and S elevation. Harled with tooled ashlar dressings; bullfaced rubble E gable. Later 19th century entrance in E gable under spade-pointed head with roll-moulded arrises, hoodmould terminating in floreated stops. 3 long windows with similar heads surround entrance; simple bellcote at apex. 2 shallow segmental-headed narrow windows light N and S elevations; Minster's porch with end stack and piended roof projects at centre S. W gable fenestration partially blocked by later single storey, gabled wing. Square pattern leaded glazing; slate roofs. Burial ground; earlier burial ground with 18th and 19th century tombstones. Pair square ashlar gate piers with inscription and pedimented caps dated 1865. Pair spearhead carriage gates. Matching spearhead railings (also 1865) rise from low coped burial ground wall. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Free Church built on site of earlier Church of Scotland. Gate piers gifted by Evan Cameron 1865 who repaired both church and burial ground. Was Item 1 on 1971 Statutory List.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.