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Latitude: 57.3876 / 57°23'15"N
Longitude: -7.3965 / 7°23'47"W
OS Eastings: 75883
OS Northings: 845899
OS Grid: NF758458
Mapcode National: GBR 8946.0YL
Mapcode Global: WGV34.CK3X
Entry Name: Ardkenneth St Michael's Church Presbytery & Gatepiers
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 352926
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB18779
Building Class: Cultural
Location: South Uist
County: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Electoral Ward: Barraigh, Bhatarsaigh, Eirisgeigh agus Uibhist a Deas
Parish: South Uist
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Built 1826-9. Church and 2-storey 3-bay presbytery all under
one long roof. Rectangular-plan. Harled. CHURCH: also 3 bays;
tall, depressed-arched windows, small-paned with intersecting
tracery to north, modern glazing to south gabled porch to
west, and cross finial. Slate roof.
Interior of church: triple-arched east end; 2 tall, bulbous
columns. Small-scale replica of Hew Lorimer's statue at West
Gerinish to north of church.
PRESBYTERY: central gabled porch to north; plate glass
sashes; modern kitchen addition to south. Stack at gable.
Partly enclosed by rubble-built walls; corniced square
gatepiers to north with pyramidal caps, also rubble-built.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
Rubble-built structure west side of drive may have been a
kiln.
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