Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

INSH PARISH CHURCH OF SCOTLAND AND BURIAL GROUNDLB7668

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
05/10/1971
Local Authority
Highland
Planning Authority
Highland
Parish
Kingussie And Insh
National Park
Cairngorms
NGR
NH 83585 5350
Coordinates
283585, 805350

Description

Later 18th century, possibly incorporating earlier

site; 1828 and late 19th century alterations. Simple

rectangular church orientated E/W; white harled, tooled

granite ashlar margins and dressings. Round-headed

entrance in SW; 3 irregular spaced round-headed windows in

S (that in outer SE bay probably blocked door), pair

similar windows in N elevation (probably later), and long/

round-headed windows in E and W gables; multi-pane glazing

with intersecting astragals. W gable apex bellcote with

attentuated ball finial; local slate roof.

Interior; re-cast late 19th century. Simple pine dado and

boarded ceiling; panelled screen at W screening entrance

lobby and minister's room; late 19th century pews; 20th century octagonal pulpit, communion table and font.

Alcove in centre S wall (probably former minister's door)

with early copper bell and communion plate.

Burial ground; drystone walled burial ground with mainly

19th and 20th century tombs.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Commanding wooded site by Loch Insh.

Insh declared Quoad Sacra parish in 1828 when church

became a "Government" church; communion plate dated 1828

Mural plaque erected 1817 by George MacPherson Grant to

his parents John Macpherson (d. 1799) and Isabella Wilson

(d. 1784). Government manse designed by Thomas Telford

(1828) now Insh House.

References

Bibliography

NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT xiv (1835) p.78.

IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND ii (c. 1858), p. 112.

George Hay, THE ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH POST-REFORMATION

CHURCHES (1957), p.259.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

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