Ullapool Museum and Visitor Centre

Award-winning Highland Museum. Housed within a unique former Telford Parliamentary Church, it provides a stimulating insight into the life of a Highland parish. Large screen audiovisual presentation of Lochbroom. Local archives, records, genealogy and photos. Touchscreens. Exhibitions. Six European languages.

This is a Grade A1 listed building built in 1829 at a cost of £900. It was in regular use until 1935 as a Church of Scotland parish church. The last service was a wedding. The congregation finally moved into the current Church of Scotland building in Mill Street.

It is known as both a ‘Parliamentary’ and a ‘Telford’ church because it was following an Act of Parliament and Thomas Telford was the chief surveyor engineer involved in the design and building. The plans and specifications were actually by James Smith and approved by Thomas Telford. 32 were built throughout the Highlands of Scotland, all to the same design of which about ten survive, although Ullapool is the most complete. It seated 490 people with the gallery and was one of only three thus built.