Scaristamore Parish Church, Harris

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Na h-Eileanan Siar Planning Authority Na h-Eileanan Siar Parish Harris NGR NG 00753 92778 Coordinates 100753, 892778 — Built 1840 as parish church. Gothic. Gabled, tall and rectangular-plan, 2-bay flanks with pointed windows, delicate intersecting tracery, sash windows with timber astragals; 2 lights on SW gable, flanking pulpit, are plainer, metal-framed and fixed. Piend-roofed porch on NE gable; jamb on rear (SE) wall not original. Harled, unmargined openings, slated roofs with skews and ball finials. Inside, seating looks altered (in 2 ranks, with centre passageway, but pews at front and rear are shorter while the remainder seem to have been lengthened; most likely there was once a long communion table central?). Panelled pulpit with integral precentor's box beneath, hexagonal sounding board above. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Superceded a building of the 1780's, as the parish church, built by Alexander MacLeod of Rodel, and which was described in the NSA entry (1839) as "now in ruins"). Set a distance back from the main road, behind a burial ground of early date.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.