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Latitude: 56.9191 / 56°55'8"N
Longitude: -6.152 / 6°9'7"W
OS Eastings: 147405
OS Northings: 788538
OS Grid: NM474885
Mapcode National: GBR CB6F.DVZ
Mapcode Global: WGZBL.GCP3
Plus Code: 9C8MWR9X+J5
Entry Name: Presbytery, St Donnan's Roman Catholic Church, Cleadale, Eigg
Listing Name: Isle of Eigg, Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery
Listing Date: 11 February 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391725
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44968
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391725
Location: Small Isles
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Caol and Mallaig
Parish: Small Isles
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Church building Architectural structure
1910. Linked group of simple Gothic, gabled church and presbytery. Harled. Overlooking Bay of Laig.
CHURCH: rectangular-plan nave with gabled, lower chancel and half-piended vestry at right angles. Battered buttresses dividing 4 bays of nave. Pointed-arch windows, bipartite cradling oculus to chancel return and cinquefoil window in outer gablehead. Shoulder-arched door, 2-leaf boarded doors, with large pointed recess and multi-foil window (now shielded) above, and small windows flanking. Plain gabled bellcote to gablehead between nave above crossing, cross finials above entrance gable and chancel.
Lead-paned glazing with border pattern and timber hopper. Slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles. Stack to vestry with 2 terracotta cans. PRESBYTERY: gabled bay at centre of entrance elevation with gabled porch projecting at ground (panelled door) and 2 windows at 1st floor; canted window flanking to right at ground with stop-chamfered arrises; single window to ground to left. Gabled dormers. Link to church at ground to right return, 2 1st floor windows. Rear with openings at ground, blank at 1st floor.
Timber windows in poor condition or blocked (1997). Slate roof, coped skews and gablehead stacks, octagonal cans. Cast-iron rooflight.
INTERIORS: not seen 1997.
Although comparatively late in date, the church is a good example of effective and well detailed economic design.
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