Church of Scotland Parish Church, Edderton

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 25/03/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Edderton NGR NH 71025 84715 Coordinates 271025, 884715 — 1842. Style of James Smith. Imposing, Gothic facade; tooled coursed rubble, tooled ashlar dressings. Centre projecting tower with square base as Minister's porch with centre door, 2 octagonal stages with pointed-headed Y-traceried window above, and louvred windows in second stage terminating with bellcast slated octagonal spire with weathervane. Tower flanked by two large 3-light traceried and mullioned Gothic windows and by shallow projecting gallery stairwells in outer bays; pointed-headed windows in ground and 1st floors of outer bays, each bay with wide angle pilasters, angle pinnacles and centre pediments with trefoil motif. 3-bay flanks with centre projecting porches, flanked by blocked Gothic windows with 3 similarly shaped windows above. Intersecting astragals to windows; piended platform slate roof. Interior; 5-sided panelled galleried interior; gallery supported on fluted cast-iron columns; pulpit replaced and lowered; original ogee octagonal sounding board, with delicate Adamesque "stucco duro" detailing on frieze. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Gallery partitioned off and now disused. Sounding board and former pulpit similar to those at Rosskeen Church (by James Smith)

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.