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Latitude: 55.7561 / 55°45'22"N
Longitude: -6.284 / 6°17'2"W
OS Eastings: 131315
OS Northings: 659732
OS Grid: NR313597
Mapcode National: GBR BFWH.LD3
Mapcode Global: WGYH0.FLT4
Plus Code: 9C7MQP48+F9
Entry Name: Hall, High Street, Bowmore, Islay
Listing Name: Bowmore Village, High Street, Former Free Church Including Perimeter Wall and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 9 October 1991
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 345895
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB12947
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200345895
Location: Killarow and Kilmeny
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Kintyre and the Islands
Parish: Killarow And Kilmeny
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival Church hall
Free church, possibly by Campbell Douglas of Glasgow and built in 1860 (Douglas is thought to have done work at nearby Kilarrow parish manse circa 1867). Occupies previously unbuilt site at edge of the 18th century planned town.
Gothic. 4-bay, gabled rectangular-plan, handsome rose window in (S) gable to Street above low, asymmetrically-placed vestry; gabled porch near N end of E flank wall. Lancets to flanks. Rubble-built, (imported) ashlar dressings, polychrome rubble detailing to arches and encircling rose window. Early glazing pattern survives; slate roofs.
Inside, open-timbered roof, arched braces carried on stone corbels. Original fixed seating removed (probably in 1950s), conversion to hall.
Enclosed by Rubble-built perimeter wall with simple gatepiers, also rubble.
No longer in ecclesiastical use.
In 1856, Bowmore was recognised as a preaching station; church and manse were erected in 1860, and a school soon afterwards (Ewing).
Benefactors included Claud MacFie of Gogarburn and Charles MacNeil (an elder).
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