Iochdar Church, South Uist

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 15/11/2001 Local Authority Na h-Eileanan Siar Planning Authority Na h-Eileanan Siar Parish South Uist NGR NF 78739 46215 Coordinates 78739, 846215 — David Mackintosh, 1889. Rectangular-plan aisless mission church with small pitch-roofed porch. Roughly squared snecked rubble with harl-pointing; harled to S. 3-bay nave. Square-headed openings incorporating timber-mullioned traceried windows. E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: porch with iron cross finial and modern timber door in bay to left, 2 small bipartite windows to right. N ELEVATION: gabled elevation with large tripartite window to centre. S (ROAD) ELEVATION: gabled elevation with large untraceried window. W ELEVATION: 3 regularly-disposed small bipartite windows. Leaded multi-pane square- and diamond-pattern glazing (some coloured) in timber windows. Ballachulish slate. Overhanging, slightly swept eaves and plain bargeboarding BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: drystone rubble boundary walls with pyramidally-coped square-section gatepiers. INTERIOR: walls and roof space lined with boarded timber; wall plaque commemorating visit of Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, 15th August, 1956. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. A well-detailed humble church appropriate to its location. Groome mentions mission churches at 'Iachdar' (sic), as well as Boisdale (1836) and Benbecula (1824).

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.