Kinloss, Kinloss Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and Enclosing Walls Kinloss, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Kinloss, Kinloss Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and Enclosing Walls has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 340867 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 8680
- Canmore ID
- 194454
- Category
- B
- Name
- Kinloss, Kinloss Parish Church (church of Scotland) and Enclosing Walls
- Parish
- Kinloss
- County
- Moray
- Easting
- 306267
- Northing
- 861756
- Date Listed
- 26 January 1971
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
1765; repairs and re-fenestratin of S elevation 1830, William Robertson, architect; centre rear T-plan wing, Alexander Urquhart, Forres, 1834; gabled wings NW and SW, tower and re-cast and re-modelled interior, A and W Reid, Elgin 1863. Irregular plan church, harled, tooled rubble tower, tooled ashlar dressings. Hoodmoulded entrance in base of tower, also square porch in SW re-entrant angle; 4 substantial 1830 square-headed hoodmoulded windows with mullion and transom (at SW re-set in 1863 gable); 2 1863 pointed-headed hoodmoulded windows in W gable. 3-stage tower at E with pointed-headed louvred Gothic openings in each face of upper stage and corbelled and crenellated wallhead. Lattice-pane glazing; slate roof; apex cross at W. INTERIOR: plain interior re-cast to W in 1863; gallery at E; pine dado; pine pews; re-located plain (?)18th century panelled pulpit stands on reduced base and without tester at side of chancel area; 1863 Gothic backboard to former pulpit in centre of W wall. 1688 mort bell by John Cowie of Elgin. Low coped rubble wall (1830) encloses church.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT (i, 1790-1, Witherington and Grant ed. vol xvi, 1982), p.620. Scottish Record Office CH2/162/5/386-402 (Presb. Records). Moray District Record Office, Kirk Session Records, Kinloss (1834-5), pp.157, 173-4 and DAW P796. NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT xiii (1842), p.211. George Hay, THE ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH POST REFORMATION CHURCHES 1560-1843 (1957), p.166.
