St Donnan's Roman Catholic Church, Cleadale, Eigg

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 11/02/1998 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Small Isles NGR NM 47412 88531 Coordinates 147412, 788531 — 1910. Linked group of simple Gothic, gabled church and presbytery. Harled. Overlooking Bay of Laig. CHURCH: rectangular-plan nave with gabled, lower chancel and half-piended vestry at right angles. Battered buttresses dividing 4 bays of nave. Pointed-arch windows, bipartite cradling oculus to chancel return and cinquefoil window in outer gablehead. Shoulder-arched door, 2-leaf boarded doors, with large pointed recess and multi-foil window (now shielded) above, and small windows flanking. Plain gabled bellcote to gablehead between nave above crossing, cross finials above entrance gable and chancel. Lead-paned glazing with border pattern and timber hopper. Slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles. Stack to vestry with 2 terracotta cans. PRESBYTERY: gabled bay at centre of entrance elevation with gabled porch projecting at ground (panelled door) and 2 windows at 1st floor; canted window flanking to right at ground with stop-chamfered arrises; single window to ground to left. Gabled dormers. Link to church at ground to right return, 2 1st floor windows. Rear with openings at ground, blank at 1st floor. Timber windows in poor condition or blocked (1997). Slate roof, coped skews and gablehead stacks, octagonal cans. Cast-iron rooflight. INTERIORS: not seen 1997. — Although comparatively late in date, the church is a good example of effective and well detailed economic design.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.