Ardchattan Parish Church
Burial Ground (19th Century), Church (19th Century) (1836), War Memorial(S) (20th Century)
Site Name Ardchattan Parish Church
Classification Burial Ground (19th Century), Church (19th Century) (1836), War Memorial(S) (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Achnaba; Ardchattan Church; Ardchattan Kirk; War Memorial; War Memorial Plaques
Canmore ID 141079
Site Number NM93NW 47
NGR NM 94491 35955
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/141079
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM93NW 47 9449135955
For Old Kirk (St Baodan's Church, at NM 97102 35342), see NM93NE 1.
For Ardchattan, Old Parish Church (NM 9763 3474), see NM93SE 23.
See also:
NM93NE 1 Ardchattan, Old Kirk
NM93SE 23 Ardchattan, Old Parish Church
Opened for worship 1836.
REFERENCE:
Ardchattan Church
SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE
The Burial Aisle and Mausoleum.
Specification for finishing the aisle belonging to Barcaldine and building a mausoleum for the family of Barcaldine.
John Drummon and James Lawson, masons.
1830 GD 170/514/3
Specification for finishing the Heritors' Minister's and Elders' rooms adjoining the Church proposed to be built according to John Thom's plan.
[1832] GD 170/519/6
Proposal to build a new church at a more convenient place and repair the existing church at Ardchattan.
Letter from Col. Robert Campbell of Ardchattan.
He agrees to the proposal although he regrets the move.
1830 GD 170/2367/11
Estimate for building Ardchattan Church [according to John Thom's plan.]
It amounts to (pounds) 972.4.1
1832 GD 170/519/3
The new Church.
Andrew Elliot writes that he is disappointed with the money he has received for his labour at Ardchattan Church.
Letter to Sir Donald Campbell of Barcaldine.
1833 GD 170/2431/1
The Church
Letters suggesting that the old church might be repaired and a new church built in the most populous part of the parish, along with a new manse.
General Duncan Campbell proposes that the plan should be put to the heritors.
1830 GD 170/2314/26/1 and 2
[Cross ref. GD 170/249]
Specification for building the new church.
According to a plan submitted by John Thom.
1832 GD 170/519/4
The Mausoleum.
Letters from James Gillespie Graham. He is sending plan, elevations and a working drawing. The Arms are to be cut in Edinburgh so the mason must leave room for them.
1821 GD 170/2451/3 and 4
Field Visit (June 1967)
NM 945 359. This church (Pl. 12D) was built in 1836, to replace an earlier building (No. 215) situated to the E of Ardchattan House and close to the site of the present manse (NSA, vii (Argyll), 506). The main block is oblong on plan and measures about 18·6 m from NE to SW by 12·3 m transversely over all. The principal entrance-doorway is situated in the SW gable-wall, which is surmounted by a belfry and flanked by short two-storeyed wings containing a vestry and retiring rooms. The masonry is of local granite with sandstone dressings, all the detail being executed in the Gothic Revival style. The windows are mullioned and transomed and have latticed glass, while the gables are crow-stepped.
The interior (Pl. I2F), which retains much of its original character, follows the arrangement generally adopted in galleried hall-churches (Fig. 87). A horseshoe gallery, supported on moulded cast-iron columns, runs round three sides of the building, while the pulpit stands against the centre of the NE wall. The pulpit is approached by a double flight of steps and is surmounted by a sounding-board, while a lower but similar staircase gives access to the precentor's desk. The pulpit precentor's desk and gallery-front are panelled with blind Gothic tracery. A long communion-table (Pl. 12E) with flanking pews traverses almost the full length of the church along its central axis, the remainder of the ground-floor area being occupied by two main series of bench-pews.
A plan and specification for a new church at Achnaba (Ardchattan) was provided by John Thom, an Oban architect, in September 1832, the estimated cost of the building being £972 4s 1d. It was presumably Thom's plan that was approved by the Presbytery in the following month, but in January 1833 a somewhat higher estimate by J and W Dalziel, wrights near Hamilton, was accepted. There was some delay in construction, and the church was not opened for worship until the autumn of 1836 (S.R.O., Campbell of Barcaldine Collection, GD 170/519; Lorn Presbytery Minutes, vi (1829-39), pp. 36-8, 73, 84-6, 248.).
RCAHMS 1975, visited June 1967.
Measured Survey (1967)
Surveyed for phased plan. Redrawn in ink and published at a reduced scale (RCAHMS 1975, fig. 87).
