Kilchoan, Old Parish Church

Heritage listing

Date Added 03/11/1999 Supplementary Information Updated 07/05/2021 Type Ecclesiastical: church Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Ardnamurchan NGR NM 48498 64045 Coordinates 148498, 764045 — The monument is the disused former parish church and graveyard located on sloping ground to the N of Kilchoan. This old church is now a roofless shell. It is mainly of the eighteenth century but incorporates part of an earlier church dating to the twelfth or thirteenth century. It measures, internally, 14.4m E-W by 5.2m N-S. Traces of medieval masonry survive in the W and E gable walls and possibly elsewhere in the building. The dedication of the church was to St. Comgan. There are two fourteenth/fifteenth century grave slabs in the churchyard, which is still in use for burial. The area to be scheduled is irregular in plan and measures a maximum of 50m E-W by 55m N-S, to include the church, graveyard and graveyard wall, as shown in red on the accompanying map extract. All lairs with current burial rights are excluded from the scheduling.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.