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Parish Church, Kilmuir Easter

A Category A Listed Building in Tain and Easter Ross, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.7313 / 57°43'52"N

Longitude: -4.0881 / 4°5'17"W

OS Eastings: 275756

OS Northings: 873194

OS Grid: NH757731

Mapcode National: GBR J889.43T

Mapcode Global: WH4F6.5YJ0

Plus Code: 9C9QPWJ6+GQ

Entry Name: Parish Church, Kilmuir Easter

Listing Name: Kilmuir Easter Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and Burial Ground

Listing Date: 25 March 1971

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 339868

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7876

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Kilmuir Easter, Parish Church

ID on this website: 200339868

Location: Kilmuir Easter

County: Highland

Electoral Ward: Tain and Easter Ross

Parish: Kilmuir Easter

Traditional County: Cromartyshire

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Description

1798. Alterations and repairs, A Maitland and Sons, 1882;
renovation, John Robertson, 1903. Interior re-cast, 1906.
Rectangular church with remains of earlier church as burial
vault and tower (dated 1616) at east gable.
Church: coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings; long and
short ashlar quoins. 2 round-headed window in centre, south
elevation with (blocked) Minister's door between. 2 similar
(later insertions) at SE; entrance in SW with 2 small round-
headed gallery windows above, and 1 in west gable; 1882
tracery to long windows; stone ball finials to apeces; 2
ridge vents; slate roof. Burial vault and tower; small
gabled burial vault, rubble with ashlar dressings; chamfered
ashlar doorway; 2 small rectangular gable windows each side
of projecting round bell tower which rises above slated vault
roof. Rubble base to tower, with small vents in walling, and
ashlar upper portion slightly corbelled out with decorative
feathering on corbel. 4 rectangular openings rise through
wallhead with decorative shaped pediments; 4 small oval
lucarnes break through ashlar conical roof, terminating with
stumpy finial. 2 datestone and initial stones at wallhead.
Burial ground: rubble walled burial ground; tooled ashlar
cope; square tooled ashlar gate piers with pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

In ecclesiastical use. Tower initialled GMR with Munro eagle

on shield between letters. Second inscription reads "Beigit

1616".

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