Cameron Memorial, Kilmallie Parish Church, Corpach

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Category C Date Added 05/10/1971 Supplementary Information Updated 13/12/2018 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Kilmallie NGR NN 09109 76974 Coordinates 209109, 776974 — Archibald McPhail, Oban, 1783, renovated and recast, 1890. All harled with tooled ashlar margins and dressings. 4-bay south front with former left outer bay door as window; entrance in right outer bay masked by late 19th century projecting gabled porch with round-headed doorway, double leaf plank door with ornate cast-iron hinges and with small, modern vestry in SE re-entrant. Large round-headed (1890) gable windows; all windows with 1890 circular geometric tracery and either with stained or lattice pane glazing. Small mural sundial in centre of south elevation. Tall bellcote at west gable with ribbed cap and ball finial. Ball finial to east apex; slate roof. Interior; re-cast to west in 1890; braced timber ceiling; octagonal panelled timber pulpit; brass eagle lectern, 1907; stone font on stem. Various mural memorials to the Camerons of Lochiel, Inverailort and Drimnasallie: 1890 stained glass window in west gable; also single stained glass window by Gordon Wilson, Glasgow 1957. Church enclosed by drystone wall with pair square tooled rubble gate piers with pyramidal caps. Within enclosure, standing close to church entrance, stands square, tapering ashlar memorial, on stepped base with swags, decorative detailing and topped by headless, robed figure. Inscribed to memory of Sir Alexander Cameron of Inverailort, died 1850. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Built in 1783 for cost of $440. Site the "most centrical spot in the whole parish.....it is distant about 36 miles from the extremity of the parish." Stained glass memorial window (1890) to Dr. Archibald Clerk, Ministe

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.