Parish Church, Howmore, South Uist

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Na h-Eileanan Siar Planning Authority Na h-Eileanan Siar Parish South Uist NGR NF 75659 36413 Coordinates 75659, 836413 — Designed by Archibald Scott of Edinburgh, architect, 1837. Built in 1840's. Plain, 3-bay, rectangular-plan church; former vestry at west end of north wall, modern hall adjoining. All harled. Round-headed openings; door and gallery window in east gable below gabled apex belfry; tall windows to bays with Y-tracery. Straight skews with gabletted skewputts; slate roof. Interior: long central communion table runs full length and has marbled top; pulpit on west wall has steps on either side; gallery at east supported on 2 simple columns. Enclosed by rubble-built walls which partly enclose Dr MacLean monument at north end; latter is dated 1861, Gothic, and of white marble. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The central communion table is a rare survival. The minister submitted a design by Alexander MacKenzie architect, Portree: Scott's design was submitted by the factors of the heritors, and it was the one chosen by the presbytery.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.