Free Church, Migdale

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 07/03/1984 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Creich (Highland) NGR NH 62666 92135 Coordinates 262666, 892135 — 1881. Simple Gothic with centre entrance in south gable; coursed rubble frontage, harl pointed rubble flanks, tooled ashlar dressings. Recessed Gothic doorway in advanced centre bay with nook shafts and continuous hoodmould linking small flanking lancets; string course above, with triple lancets under pointed relieving arch; decorative oculi under apex bellcote; long outer lancets; angle buttresses with terminal pinnacles. 6-bay flanks lit by narrow pointed headed windows; 2 similar but shorter windows light north gable; angle buttresses and small finial to north gable. Simple leaded glazing; slate roof. Interior: gallery on 3 sides with Gothic cusped blind arcading to front; panelled pulpit with 5 sided sounding board, panelled rear and front, clerk's desk below and flanking stairs with handrails. Tooled ashlar gate piers with ball finials cast iron gates; spearhead cast-iron railings on coped rubble retaining wall. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Memorial to Rev. Gustavus Aird (1813-98) Minister of Creich Free Church, within enclosure. Present church built on site of that erected in 1843. Interesting group of Free Church buildings, enhanced by connection with Dr Gustavaus Aird, a local pioneer within the Free Church at the time of the 1843 Disruption (when he was Minister at Croich Parliamentary Church) and afterwards at Creich, where he was Free Church Minister from 1843 to the time of his death in 1898.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.