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St Adamnan's Episcopal Church, Duror

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.6486 / 56°38'54"N

Longitude: -5.272 / 5°16'19"W

OS Eastings: 199498

OS Northings: 755541

OS Grid: NM994555

Mapcode National: GBR FCC4.MWM

Mapcode Global: WH1GM.Z4PY

Plus Code: 9C8PJPXH+C5

Entry Name: St Adamnan's Episcopal Church, Duror

Listing Name: Duror, Episcopal Church of St Adamnan

Listing Date: 5 October 1971

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 338615

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6891

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200338615

Location: Lismore and Appin

County: Highland

Electoral Ward: Fort William and Ardnamurchan

Parish: Lismore And Appin

Traditional County: Argyllshire

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Description

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.

Statement of Interest

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.

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