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Lochgilphead, Bishopton Road, Christ Church
Church (19th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)
Site Name Lochgilphead, Bishopton Road, Christ Church
Classification Church (19th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Lochgilphead, Episcopal Church; West Church; War Memorial Cross
Canmore ID 125172
Site Number NR88NE 55
NGR NR 85991 88371
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/125172
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmichael Glassary
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR88NE 55.00 85991 88371
Christ Church [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, April 2010.
NR88NE 55.01 NR 85993 88355 Rectory
NR88NE 55.02 NR 8599 8837 Cross-slab (Episcopalian Rectory)
ARCHITECT: John Henderson, 1852.
Vestry added 1888 by Alexander Ross.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Photographic Survey (April 1962)
Photographic survey of buildings in Lochgilphead, Argyll, by the Scottish Development Department (in the Scottish National Buildings Record Collection) in 1962
Field Visit (July 1988)
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
