St Columba's Church and Macintosh Vault, Petty

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Petty NGR NH 73871 49886 Coordinates 273871, 849886 — 1839, style of William Robertson, Elgin. Large T-plan church, with small burial mausoleum (Circa 1686) at E gable. All red rubble with similar tooled ashlar dressings; harled mausoleum with ashlar dressings. 4 long symmetrical square-headed, hoodmoulded windows to S elevation of church, with square-headed, also hoodmoulded, entrances in outer bays. Similar window and door in west elevation of rear T-wing, with further window in east of T-wing. Considerably larger, but similar, window lights West gable of church; all these large windows have moulded wooden transoms and mullions and multi-pane glazing. Small 16-pane gallery windows in north and east gables, similar windows light rear of church. Truncated corbelled octagonal bellcote at west gable apex; partially damaged cross finials at East and North apices. Accentuated skewputts; slate roofs. Mausoleum: circa 1686, small and low L-plan with narrow 3-bay front, comprising centre pointed-headed door with flanking similarly arched windows with simple Y-tracery. Mural monument in form of Venetian window with blind or defaced panels, moulded cornices to side lights, dated 1742 and initialled LM and AD. Moulded eaves cornice; piended slate roof. Pair cast-iron cats bearing banners standing on stone plinths flank entrance. Burial ground: walled burial ground surrounds church, falling away down terraced slope to south. Coped rubble walls with pair square tooled rubble gate piers with square caps approached flight steps (former principal entrance, now enclosed by further burial ground extension). Watch-house: dated 1825. Rectangular rubble watch-house built against side of slope flank

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.