Church of Our Lady and St Columba, Newtonmore Road, Kingussie

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Supplementary Information Updated 06/12/2018 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Burgh Kingussie National Park Cairngorms NGR NH 75561 00557 Coordinates 275561, 800557 — 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. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Presbytery appears as "Loreto" on OS.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.