Parliamentary Church, Duror, Kulmani

Parliamentary Church, Duror, Kulmani
Parliamentary Church, Duror, Kulmani
Parliamentary Church, Duror, Kulmani
Parliamentary Church, Duror, Kulmani
1818-21
designer
182,5 m²
church
1
NM 99375 55288
Comments :
Thomas Telford, 1826. Standard Parliamentary T-plan church, main 4-bay frontage to NW. Coursed squared rubble; tooled ashlar dressings and margins. Shallow pointed-headed entrances in outer bays with similarly architraved paired windows between. Similar windows in NE gable and NE elevation of rear wing. Original cast-iron Y-tracery astragals and lattice pane glazing survives in front windows; wooden replacements, also with lattice pane glazing elsewhere. Standard Parliamentary apex bellcote at SW gable apex with stumpy pyramidal finial and similar diminutive angle pinnacles. Apex finial at NE gable; lead covered flat skews; slate roofs. Interior: later internal party walls reduced size. forming entrance lobby at NE and Minister's room at SW. Late 19th century replacement pulpit in original site in centre of NW wall; pews of similar date. Burial Ground: small drystone walled burial ground surrounds church, roughly coped; square tooled rubbled gate piers with square caps.[HS], [CRUD] 326, [MORR] 70
HER
Historic