Parish Church, Kilmuir Easter

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 25/03/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Kilmuir Easter NGR NH 75756 73194 Coordinates 275756, 873194 — 1798. Alterations and repairs, A Maitland and Sons, 1882; renovation, John Robertson, 1903. Interior re-cast, 1906. Rectangular church with remains of earlier church as burial vault and tower (dated 1616) at east gable. Church: coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings; long and short ashlar quoins. 2 round-headed window in centre, south elevation with (blocked) Minister's door between. 2 similar (later insertions) at SE; entrance in SW with 2 small round- headed gallery windows above, and 1 in west gable; 1882 tracery to long windows; stone ball finials to apeces; 2 ridge vents; slate roof. Burial vault and tower; small gabled burial vault, rubble with ashlar dressings; chamfered ashlar doorway; 2 small rectangular gable windows each side of projecting round bell tower which rises above slated vault roof. Rubble base to tower, with small vents in walling, and ashlar upper portion slightly corbelled out with decorative feathering on corbel. 4 rectangular openings rise through wallhead with decorative shaped pediments; 4 small oval lucarnes break through ashlar conical roof, terminating with stumpy finial. 2 datestone and initial stones at wallhead. Burial ground: rubble walled burial ground; tooled ashlar cope; square tooled ashlar gate piers with pyramidal caps. — In ecclesiastical use. Tower initialled GMR with Munro eagle on shield between letters. Second inscription reads "Beigit 1616".

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.