Church of Scotland, Invermoriston

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Urquhart And Glenmoriston NGR NH 41883 16909 Coordinates 241883, 816909 — Probably George Gordon and Co., architects, Inverness, 1913. Gothic. Rectangular church orientated W-E with canted apse at W gable and square, 2-storey tower at E. Harled with contrasting painted tooled ashlar dressings. Gabled porch projects at S side of tower. Pointed-headed entrance under square hoodmould with cusped detailed in spandrels. Pair double-leaf plank doors with decorative cast-iron hinges. Tower has 2-light pointed headed windows in ground floor (west and north) and 1st floor (north only). Blind clock faces under hoodmoulds in west and south, hoodmoulded louvred windows in second stage under corbelled and crenellated wallhead, octagonal stair turret. Stepped diagonal buttresses. 3-bay flanks with pointed-headed hoodmoulded windows with Y-tracery and buttresses. Single hoodmoulded windows in each facet of apse. Lattice-pane glazing. Small vestry projects at NW with shouldered lintel to entrance. Base course; slate roof. Interior; simple rubble walled interior with tooled ashlar dressings. Panelled dado to cill height in nave and apse. Hammer-beam timber roof with plank ceiling. Octagonal pulpit with cusped detailing to panelling. Various mural memorials to Grant family of Glenmoriston. — Ecclesiastical building in use such. Church erected in 1913 by endowment of Harriet Morrison, daughter of James Murray Grant of Glenmoriston in memory of her husband, Frank Morrison of Farnwood, Ascot, Berkshire. Present building replaced earlier picture of which survives in vestry.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.