Daviot Parish Church Of Scotland And Burial Ground

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Supplementary Information Updated 01/11/2017 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Daviot And Dunlichity NGR NH 72344 39441 Coordinates 272344, 839441 — Dated 1826. Rectangular harled church, with tooled ashlar margins and dressings. Tooled and polished ashlar tower at west gable. Church orientated north/south, with roundheaded entrance and similar gallery window in centre of north gable; double leaf panelled door; apex ball finial. Long east and west elevations dominated by centre Venetian window flanked by long round-headed windows with intermediate buttressings and small, later vestry window at SE; Crenellated wallhead with stumpy angle pinnacles to east and west elevations; ashlar angle margins; dated rainwater heads; slate roof. Slender square, 5-storey tower abuts south gable; all tooled and polished ashlar. Narrow door in base of tall ground floor with small windows high in return gables, and stepped band course from which rise 3 further, narrower stages, defined by band courses and with round-headed or bull's eye lights. 4th stage crowned with wide moulded cornice with angle ball finials, from which narrow 5th storey rised, with square louvred windows set in margined round-headed recesses in each face, deep moulded cornice with stumpy angle pinnacles and ashlar spire terminating in ball finialled gilded weather- cock, from which the N, S, E, W, pointers are missing. Interior; re-cast interior, lowered ceiling and west gallery, new pews and fittings. Burial Ground: roughly coped rubble walled burial ground surrounds church; entrance flanked by simple square rubble piers with shaped caps. 18th and 19th century tombs. — Building in ecclesiastical use as such. Daviot Parish joined with Dunlichty in 1618. Church

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.