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Latitude: 57.423 / 57°25'22"N
Longitude: -4.577 / 4°34'37"W
OS Eastings: 245347
OS Northings: 839893
OS Grid: NH453398
Mapcode National: GBR H923.862
Mapcode Global: WH3FC.NPNB
Plus Code: 9C9QCCFF+55
Entry Name: St Mary's R.C. Church, Eskadale
Listing Name: Eskadale, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church and Burial Ground
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 340168
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB8105
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Eskadale, St Mary's R.c. Church
ID on this website: 200340168
Location: Kiltarlity and Convinth
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Aird and Loch Ness
Parish: Kiltarlity And Convinth
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Church building
1826, using Norman style, with alterations and additions by
Peter Paul Pugin 1881. Symmetrical rectangular gable church
orientated E/W, with slightly lower and shorter 5-bay aisles
N and S. White harled, with broad splayed tooled ashlar
margins and dressings.
Round-headed entrance in centre of W gable with similar
entrances in N and S gable returns. Flanking lancets to W
entrance; 3 round-headed paired-light lattice-pane windows
above, the centre being taller. Similar windows in gables and
5-bay flanks.
Circular window (1881) with geometric tracery in centre E gable
with small occulus above. Cross finial at E gable apex, square
stumpy finials elsewhere; slate roof.
Interior; spacious interior with aisles divided from nave by
Neo-Norman arcade; small gallery at W with simple cast-iron
balustrade. Ornate Gothic reredos (1881) flanked by niches
with statues; Gothic canopied tomb chest in N wall of chancel
(1881).
Late 19th century pews with "poppy head" ends. Mural
memorials.
Burial ground; simple walled burial ground with 19th and 20th
century tombs. Lovat burial enclosure to W of church.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. "Neat Roman Catholic
chapel erected a few years ago by Lord Lovat at considerable
expense" (1841). Embellishments such as reredos and table
tomb by Peter Paul Pugin, 1881, executed as memorial to
Thomas, Lord Lovate (d. 1875). Carving of reredos and tomb by
Boulton of Cheltenham.
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