Kilchattan,old parish church,Colonsay

Heritage listing

Date Added 02/10/1991 Type Ecclesiastical: church Local Authority Argyll And Bute Parish Colonsay And Oronsay NGR NR 36291 95026 Coordinates 136291, 695026 — Remains of a rectangular medieval parish church, possibly of the later l4th century, measuring 8.3 by 4.5m within walls 0.85m thick, built of random rubble masonry in lime mortar. There are traces of a splayed E window, flanked by a pair of aumbries, and of another window in the S wall near the E end. The W wall and western part of the S wall, however, are not visible above ground, and what does remain of the building stands no more than 2.3m high. The area in and around the church is disturbed by burials (the earliest dated one being l789), and a gardener's shed (timber and corrugated iron) has been constructed in the NE angle. The scheduled area includes the foundations (presumed) and standing walls of the church, the area contained by them and a zone extending lm outside them, forming a total area of 12 by 8.2m as shown in red on the accompanying map.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.