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Latitude: 56.2302 / 56°13'48"N
Longitude: -5.0734 / 5°4'24"W
OS Eastings: 209588
OS Northings: 708429
OS Grid: NN095084
Mapcode National: GBR 00.CD82
Mapcode Global: WH1JP.1NDR
Plus Code: 9C8P6WJG+3M
Entry Name: Inveraray Parish Church
Listing Name: Glenaray and Inveraray Parish Church and Church Hall, Church Square
Listing Date: 4 August 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 379415
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34978
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200379415
Location: Inveraray
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Inveraray
Electoral Ward: Mid Argyll
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Church building
c.1800-1805. Robert Mylne. Georgian. Oblong. Designed
to house separate Gaelic and English-speaking
congregations under one roof but divided by solid
partition.
Harled; dressed face-work; gabled slate roof. 2
segmental-headed windows on each side.
Pedimented facade at each end: 3 Palladian windows
above; Classical doorway with half-columns and
entablature, flanked by black segmental-headed windows;
slender column and half-column at each corner.
Bell on S. facade re-cast 1728 by Robert Maxwell,
Edinburgh; presented by Archibald Campbell of
Stonefield.: Clock on N. facade. Formerly had central
steeple (removed 1941).
INTERIOR OF GLENARAY CHURCH: Converted into Church Hall
1957.
INTERIOR OF INVERARAY CHURCH: Gallery on 3 sides. Re-
furnished 1898; notable pulpit, canopy, pews and font by
local craftsmen. Re-decorated 1952-3.
Ecclesiastical and in use as such. Built at expense of
5th Duke of Argyll who closely supervised the work.
From 1650 until their union in 1930 there were 2 changes
in Parish. Glenaray (Gaelic-speaking) and Inveraray
(English speaking).
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