St Adamnan's Episcopal Church, Duror

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Lismore And Appin NGR NM 99498 55541 Coordinates 199498, 755541 — 1848-51, rectangular plan church; chancel (dated 1911) and later internal fittings by Eden and Hodgson, Architects, London. Simple rectangular 3-bay nave with later chancel orientated to NE. All rubble with either tooled rubble or polshed granite dressings. Entrance in SW gable masked by simple gabled porch with side entrance. 3 pointed headed narrow windows light SE elevation, and paired round-headed, cusped lancets in SE chancel wall. Large pointed headed NE gable chancel window with polished granite cusped and curvilinear tracery embracing thistle motif; small consecration stone (dated 1911) set in wall below. Tooled granite crowsteps and apex cross. Small (1848-51) bellcote with simple pyramidal cap at SW gable. Slate roofs. Interior: simple interior; polished grey granite canted mural pulpit reached by short flight steps passing through nave/chancel wall and grey granite piscina, both dating from 1911. Chamber organ probably by John Snetzler, 1760-75, with restored painted case. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Chancel added in memory of Bishop Chinnery Haldane. Exceptional organ almost certainly by John Snetzler of London (1710-85), possibly originally in St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh; installed in Rosse Episcopal Chapel, Fort William 1817 (chapel preceeded St Andrew's Church moved to Duror 1880.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.