Free Church, Stromeferry

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 08/10/2001 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Lochalsh NGR NG 86227 34690 Coordinates 186227, 834690 — Late 19th century. Small, well-detailed rectangular-plan church with spirelet bellcote. Squared and snecked rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings. Battered base course and ashlar cill course. 3-bay nave; divided by pilaster strips; pointed-arch roll-moulded and voussoired doorway; pointed-arch cusped and geometric traceried windows; raked cills. S (ROAD) ELEVATION: bay to right of centre with deep-set 2-leaf boarded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges and multi-pane leaded fanlight, bays to centre and left each with trefoil-headed tripartite timber window set into rectangular panels. E ELEVATION: gabled elevation with large 3-light traceried window to centre. Square-section bellcote set-back at roof ridge, with slate-hung base giving way to reduced leaded stage and cornice surmounted by attenuated pyramidal roof, swept at eaves. N ELEVATION: 3 tripartite windows as S elevation, and tall stack to outer right. W ELEVATION: 2 lancet windows. Multi-pane (square pattern) leaded glazing with margin glazing. Graded grey slates. Overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding. INTERIOR: timber-lined vestibule with 2-leaf timber door leading to boarded-timber church with exposed roof trusses. Timber-balustered pulpit to W with flanking wall mounted oil lamps. Timber fire-surround to NW corner. — Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. The spirelet bellcote was designed and erected by 'mason contractor' from Lochcarron who also built a Church of Scotland at Dornie By Kyle. Not to be confused with another near contemporary church in Stromeferry, the former Church of Scotland Mission Church.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.