St Columba's Church, High Street, Kingussie

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Burgh Kingussie National Park Cairngorms NGR NH 76084 00701 Coordinates 276084, 800701 — 1824, later alterations. Simple harled rectangular church orientated E/W with porches at E and W gables. Harled; tooled grey granite dressings. Symmetrical S front with 4 long round-headed windows with simple Y-tracery and leaded glazing; similar (?later 19th century) centre window in N elevation flanked by narrower, similarly detailed, windows. Bellcote at W gable apex with small ball finial. Slate roof. Interior; re-cast; re-fitted 1924 (after fire) and also 1971. Gallery at W; low octagonal pulpit. Rubble walled burial ground with late 18th and 19th century tombstones. Entrance to High Street flanked by pair re-used early-mid 18th century square tooled grey granite gate piers with moulded cornice and stepped caps supporting small attenuated ball finials. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Re-built in 1824 on site of 1792 church which replaced earlier building sited in old burial ground in centre of burgh (also close to High Street). Gate piers similar to pair at old burial ground, from where they were probably removed for re-use.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.