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Loreto, Church Of Our Lady And St Columba, Newtonmore Road, Kingussie

A Category B Listed Building in Kingussie, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.0793 / 57°4'45"N

Longitude: -4.0547 / 4°3'16"W

OS Eastings: 275555

OS Northings: 800570

OS Grid: NH755005

Mapcode National: GBR JBC0.FF7

Mapcode Global: WH4JH.PBD9

Plus Code: 9C9Q3WHW+P4

Entry Name: Loreto, Church Of Our Lady And St Columba, Newtonmore Road, Kingussie

Listing Name: High Street, Roman Catholic Church of St Columba and Presbytery

Listing Date: 5 October 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 381022

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36275

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Kingussie, Newtonmore Road, Church Of Our Lady And St Columba, Loreto

ID on this website: 200381022

Location: Kingussie

County: Highland

Town: Kingussie

Electoral Ward: Badenoch and Strathspey

Traditional County: Inverness-shire

Tagged with: Architectural structure Clergy house

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Description

Church; Norman Dick of Sir John Burnet, Son and Dick,
Glasgow 1931-2. Rectangular tower at E, and small gabled
Lady Chapel at NW. Entrance porch projects at W gable.
All grey rubble with contrasting tooled sandstone ashlar
dressings. Timber frame detailing to entrance porch with
double-leaf reeded plank doors with ornamental Arts and Crafts
iron hinges, flanking side lights with stained glass and
statuette above sheltered by projecting bargeboarded
gables. 4-bay S flank with paired round-headed windows;
square tower with paired rounded-headed hoodmoulded
louvred vents in each face of upper stage, blocked eaves
band and pyramidal roof with apex finial. Cross finial
at W gable; slate roofs.
Interior; round-headed chancel arch, matched by similar arch
framing entrance lobby at W. Triple Romanesque lights in E
chancel wall; pair similar lights in Lady Chapel to right
of chancel.
Braced timber ceiling to nave; boarded ceiling to chancel
and Lady chapel, with painted frieze to chapel. Stone font;
stained glass; Italianate blue and cream glazed pottery
Stations of the Cross.
Presbytery; 1950-60, single storey N facing 3-bay dwelling
linked to church at rear. Grey rubble (as church) with
simulated tooled sandstone ashlar dressings. Gabled NW bay
with entrance in re-entrant angle with flanking light;
modern glazing; coped end stack; slate roof.
Low coped rubble wall enclosures church and presbytery.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Presbytery appears as

"Loreto" on OS.

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