Nunton Church

Heritage listing

Date Added 26/04/1993 Supplementary Information Updated 20/02/2023 Type Ecclesiastical: chapel Local Authority Na h-Eileanan Siar Parish South Uist NGR NF 76637 53797 Coordinates 76637, 853797 — The monument consists of the roofless shell of a small church of late Medieval, pre-Reformation, date. The church measures externally 7.55m by 4.8m, with walls 0.76m thick. Apart from collapse above the E window in the N wall, the building survives more or less intact to the wallhead, though a rise in ground level both inside and outside has resulted in the lower 1.0 to 1.5m of the walls being buried. The entrance, in the centre of the W gable, is surmounted externally by a small square niche; in the E gable is a splayed slit window, covered by a lintel, and there are two other similar ones in each of the side walls. The area to be scheduled comprises the chapel itself and an area of ground extending approximately 3m from its external wallface, in which evidence relating to its construction and use may survive. The area is rectangular, 13.5m E-W by 10.8m N-S, as marked in red on the accompanying map.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.