Knockbain Munlochy Parish Church and Boundary Wall

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 10/07/2014 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Knockbain NGR NH 64666 53035 Coordinates 264666, 853035 — A Maitland and Sons, 1886. Rectangular-plan Gothic style coursed rubble red sandstone church with gabled shallow entrance porch to the southwest and small rectangular-plan vestry adjoined to the northeast. The principal 3-bay elevation has a slightly advanced centre bay including an advanced gabled and pointed arch doorway flanked by two small hoodmoulded lancet windows forming part of a continuous band course that extends the width of this elevation. Above the porch are 3 tall lancet windows (the taller central window has simple plate tracery) resting on a cill course, all linked by a continuous hoodmould. There is a small glazed rose window directly above. There is a Gothic style stone belfry at the apex which it is surmounted by a metal decorative weather vane with quatrefoil centre detail. The outer bays are slightly recessed and have a large lancet window set within a blind Gothic arch. There are distinctive pinnacled and tiered buttresses flanking the outer bays. The north and south side elevations are 6 bays with long vertical pointed arch gallery windows. There are two stained glass pointed arched windows to the east gable. The windows are glazed predominantly in leaded glass; some have triangular shaped coloured glass to their margins. The slated gabled roof has 3 triangular louvred roof vents to either side. There is a smaller rectangular-plan , meeting hall and vestry (currently used as a kitchen, 2014) to the rear, accessed both externally and from a hall linking it to the main worship space. The interior was seen in 2014, and is galleried on three sides and has a good decorative scheme in the Gothic revival s

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.