Building record 11937 - SOUTH UIST, IOCHDAR CHURCH

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.
HS Listing Description 2001.

This church appears on the 6" 2nd ed Ordnance Survey sheet 1901.
KM (Arch Service)03/11/2025