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Latitude: 56.9553 / 56°57'19"N
Longitude: -7.4847 / 7°29'4"W
OS Eastings: 66714
OS Northings: 798286
OS Grid: NL667982
Mapcode National: GBR 7BXB.GK9
Mapcode Global: WGV57.0F4V
Plus Code: 9C8JXG48+44
Entry Name: Presbytery, Church Of Our Lady Star Of The Sea, Castlebay, Barra
Listing Name: Castlebay Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea and Presbytery
Listing Date: 15 January 1980
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 337400
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB5896
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200337400
Location: Barra
County: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Electoral Ward: Barraigh, Bhatarsaigh, Eirisgeigh agus Uibhist a Deas
Parish: Barra
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
George Woulfe Brennan of Oban, architect. Erected 1888. Aisled Gothic church with 4-stage square tower, presbytery at east alongside.
Snecked and squared rubble, ashlar dressings.
CHURCH: tower with stepped angle buttresses, upper stages off-set; east- facing door, mostly hood-moulded pointed openings above, louvered at top (belfry) stage, clock to 3 faces of stage below; crenellated parapet enclosing pyramidal roof.
3-light gable windows both in hood-moulded pointed panel; aisle windows single pointed lights. Cross finials.
Interior: aisle arcades depressed arches on octagonal columns; leaded gable windows; roof timbers on corbels.
PRESBYTERY: 2 storeys; asymmetrical plan; square-headed openings; plate glass sash windows; door in south gable, and 2 windows either floor. Wall-head stack to east on ramped base, flanking gabled dormerheads; long single storey lean-to at north.
Roofs mostly slated.
Enclosed by rubble built wall, cast-iron gates and gatepiers to the SE.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such; presbytery included for group value.
B of S notes include further ref. to Brennan in 1906; but it is not clear what work, if any, was done then. Brenan states that the building of the church cost #2,000.
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