Kiltarlity Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Kiltarlity And Convinth NGR NH 51272 41373 Coordinates 251272, 841373 — 1829, with some late 19th century internal alterations in style of John Robertson, Inverness. Tall rectangular church orientated E-W. Harl pointed rubble harled W gable, tooled long and short ashlar dressings to windows and margins. Main entrance with re-used 1626 date-stone to right, in centre of E gable below round-headed fanlight, similar gallery window above; paired similar windows in W gable above canted single storey Minister's porch; 3 long round-headed windows light N and S elevations; multi-pane glazing with intersecting astragals. Small porch in centre of S elevation below shortened window. Rectangular bellcote for 2 bells at W gable apex with cope supported by 6 small Roman Doric columns; single bell survives. Slate Roof. Interior, galleried interior to 3 sides with pulpit in centre W gable. Original panelled front to shortened gallery resulting in enlarged entrance lobby and room above. Gallery supported by chamfered square wooden pilasters (original). Late 19th century open timber roof with cusped detailing supported by wooden columns rising from gallery. Late 19th century cusped panelled circular pulpit on hour-glass base set behind balustrade of similar design. Late 19th century pews. Burial ground; roughly square walled burial ground surrounds church. Drystone walls with rough copes. Pair square panelled monolith ashlar gatepiers with square caps and pair simple cast-iron gates; similar pedestrian entrance. 19th and 20th century tombstones. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Site of earlier church built in 1763 (succeeding the earlier Kiltarlity church of 1626 elsewhere). Tomnacross fo

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.