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Church Of Scotland Parish Church, Duror

A Category B Listed Building in Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.6463 / 56°38'46"N

Longitude: -5.2738 / 5°16'25"W

OS Eastings: 199375

OS Northings: 755288

OS Grid: NM993552

Mapcode National: GBR FCC4.T7X

Mapcode Global: WH1GM.Y6TQ

Plus Code: 9C8PJPWG+GF

Entry Name: Church Of Scotland Parish Church, Duror

Listing Name: Duror, Church of Scotland Parish Church and Burial Ground

Listing Date: 5 October 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 338613

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6889

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200338613

Location: Lismore and Appin

County: Highland

Electoral Ward: Fort William and Ardnamurchan

Parish: Lismore And Appin

Traditional County: Argyllshire

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Description

Thomas Telford, 1826. Standard Parliamentary

T-plan church, main 4-bay frontage to NW. Coursed squared

rubble; tooled ashlar dressings and margins.

Shallow pointed-headed entrances in outer bays with similarly architraved paired windows between. Similar windows in NE gable

and NE elevation of rear wing. Original cast-iron Y-tracery

astragals and lattice pane glazing survives in front windows;

wooden replacements, also with lattice pane glazing elsewhere.

Standard Parliamentary apex bellcote at SW gable apex

with stumpy pyramidal finial and similar diminutive angle

pinnacles. Apex finial at NE gable; lead covered flat skews;

slate roofs. Interior: later internal party walls reduced

size. forming entrance lobby at NE and Minister's room

at SW.

Late 19th century replacement pulpit in original site in

centre of NW wall; pews of similar date.

Burial Ground: small drystone walled burial ground surrounds

church, roughly coped; square tooled rubbled gate piers with

square caps.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Slight variation of usual Parliamentary church in that

there are no windows in SW gable or the SW dressings of

the rear T-wing Quoad Sacra Parish of Duror.

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