Description

Rebuilt 1762-7, repairs 1838-40. T-plan parish church,
orientated E-W suggesting possible use of pre-
reformation site and perhaps also of some fabric. BODY OF
CHURCH is rubble-built - coursed and squared in areas
(eg at N end of W gable); blocks mostly diagonally
droved; ashlar dressings; square and round-headed
openings (arched window-heads not original); straight
forestair on each gable, stone-built porch at head
of each; handsome 18th century bellcote over projecting
breast on E gable. Skews with moulded skewputts. Main N
wall is shallow outset central with gabled low circa
1819 vestry adjoining. Stuart of Castlemilk family AISLE
central on S wall and built mid/later 18th century;
vault, with loft over; mainly diagonally droved
(horizontally droved W wall) and with raised margins,
keystoned flat-lintelled doorways; cill band at loft,
moulded skewputts, skew end moulding run horizontally
below apex stack; main cornice; scale-and-platt
forestair to loft door in E re-entrant angle; central
doorway to vault on S gable. Vault walls lined with
plain marble panels late 19th/early 20th century; jack-
arched ceiling and wrought-iron gate presumably
contemporary.
INTERIOR: mainly 19th century, gallery with panelled
front at either end supported on pair cast-iron columns
each also with stone corbel set at S end, at window
ingoe; aisle gallery now used as organ loft with room
behind; octagonal pulpit set central on N wall in
shallow outset; 4 leaded windows behind pulpit, by
Norman Macleod MacDougall, a World War 1 memorial.
CHURCHYARD: enclosed mainly by rubble-built walls,
corniced (? 1760s gatepiers to Kirk Road with domed
caps; headstones and table tombs mainly 18th-19th
centuries; burial place of Norman Macleod MacDougall and
of John Lawson, artists.
WATCH HOUSE beside gate; small and gabled, door on N
flank; rubble, with ashlar dressings, slate roof;
contains painted notice of instructions for watch, 1828.
1648 bell now lost.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17811335

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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