General view of Portnacroish showing Strathappin House, Rosebank and Episcopal Church of St Cross

Description General view of Portnacroish showing Strathappin House, Rosebank and Episcopal Church of St Cross

Date 1882

Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number AG 1676

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 743028

Scope and Content Portnacroish, Argyll & Bute, from the south Portnacroish, a tiny village at the head of the broad mountain valley of Strath Appin, lies near Loch Laich on the west Appin coast. This photograph of the village was taken in 1882 by the Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge. The village has some early 19th-century rubble cottages (centre), and a large, two-storeyed manse (right), Strathappin House, also built in the early 19th century. The gable-ended Free Church (left), dates from 1846, and has a south porch, and a short porched extension added to the south-east gable. In the 19th century, most of the inhabitants of the parish of Appin were members of the Church of Scotland, and served by a number of churches in the area. After the Disruption of the Church in 1843 when the Free Church of Scotland was formed, Free Churches were established at Appin and Ballachulish. The Free Church at Appin was converted into a house c.1958. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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