Aerial view of the northern end of central Inverness, looking S.

Description Aerial view of the northern end of central Inverness, looking S.

Date 3/2/2012

Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

Catalogue Number DP 342576

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content This is a close view of the northern end of Academy Street, Church Street and Bank Street, Inverness. It focuses on the Old High Church and its churchyard on St. Michael's Mount, supposedly the site of a church founded by St. Columba in the C6. The oldest part of the present building is probably C16, but the church was rebuilt in the late C18 and alterations were undertaken in the C19. Below this building on Church Street is Greyfriars Free Church, known as the Gaelic Church, built in 1792 on the site of an earlier church and now a second-hand bookshop. Above the Old High Church on the riverside there are two other churches - the Free North Church and St. Columba's High Church. At the bottom right of picture is the telephone exchange, built on the site of the Dominican Friary and there is a row of mainly C18 houses on the riverside in Douglas Row to the right of the exchange. The Greig Street suspension bridge crosses the river between the Free North Church and the Old High Church. The white building at centre right is the C18 Balnain House, restored in the 1980s and opened as a centre for Highland music. It is now used by the NTS. The white building towards the top right of picture is a hotel built in 2010 on the site of the Palace Cinema. At the top of picture is the Ness Bridge, which replaced the earlier suspension bridge in 1961. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2020/58

External Reference D2339

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2106173

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