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Field Visit
Date July 1988
Event ID 1082719
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1082719
This church and its attached rectory (NR88NE 55.01) stand in extensive glebe land bounded on the W by the Badden Burn and on the E by Bishopton Road, on the NW outskirts of Lochgilphead. They were built for Alexander Ewing, the first resident bishop of Argyll and the Isles, and the English architect William Butterfield was invited to supply designs, which were, however, rejected as too expensive. The existing buildings were designed by the Edinburgh architect John Henderson and the contract drawings were signed in March 1850, the church being dedicated in the following year.
The church is of nave-and-chancel design, with a N chapel added in 1888 to contain the organ and vestry. It is in late 13th century style, with angle-buttresses and a mixture of lancet or two- and three-light windows having flowing tracery, and the N entrance-door is set in a shallow gabled porch. The principal internal features are a tall chancel-arch of two chamfered orders, and a triple sedilia with painted decoration in the S wall of the chancel; the sanctuary floor is tiled, whereas those of the choir and nave are of brick. Three of the stained-glass windows were installed by Bishop Ewing and his family in 1855-6.
RCAHMS 1992, visited July 1988
