Church of Scotland Parish Church, Duror

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Lismore And Appin NGR NM 99375 55288 Coordinates 199375, 755288 — Thomas Telford, 1826. Standard Parliamentary T-plan church, main 4-bay frontage to NW. Coursed squared rubble; tooled ashlar dressings and margins. Shallow pointed-headed entrances in outer bays with similarly architraved paired windows between. Similar windows in NE gable and NE elevation of rear wing. Original cast-iron Y-tracery astragals and lattice pane glazing survives in front windows; wooden replacements, also with lattice pane glazing elsewhere. Standard Parliamentary apex bellcote at SW gable apex with stumpy pyramidal finial and similar diminutive angle pinnacles. Apex finial at NE gable; lead covered flat skews; slate roofs. Interior: later internal party walls reduced size. forming entrance lobby at NE and Minister's room at SW. Late 19th century replacement pulpit in original site in centre of NW wall; pews of similar date. Burial Ground: small drystone walled burial ground surrounds church, roughly coped; square tooled rubbled gate piers with square caps. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Slight variation of usual Parliamentary church in that there are no windows in SW gable or the SW dressings of the rear T-wing Quoad Sacra Parish of Duror.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.