Boleskine Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Boleskine And Abertarff NGR NH 50756 18248 Coordinates 250756, 818248 — 1777. Simple rectangular church, with long south facing 6-bay principal elevation. All grey granite rubble with tooled rubble dressings. Doorways in each outer bay with double leaf plank doors and rectangular fanlights. Pair round-headed windows in bays 2 and 5, with 2 plain square headed in centre; gallery windows in east and west gables; with small later ground floor window in east gable lighting (later) Minister's room. Multi-pane glazing. Birdcage bellcote at west gable with moulded cornice topped by ball finial; ball finial at east gable apex; flat skews; slate roof. Interior; simple interior re-cast in late 19th century (to east). Wide panelled pulpit and Minister's desk. Gallery across west end; plain pews. Burial ground; roughly coped drystone walled square burial ground encloses church; pair square tooled grey granite gate piers with plain caps. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Church "...long and narrow, resembling a barn more than a house meant for public worship" (1835). Earlier church at Boleskine on Loch Ness side.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.