Lismore, St Moluag's Cathedral. View of gravestones.

Description Lismore, St Moluag's Cathedral. View of gravestones.

Date 8/7/1882

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

Catalogue Number AG 1709

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 743010

Scope and Content Lismore Parish Church, Argyll & Bute Lismore Parish Church occupies part of an early 14th-century building that served as the cathedral church of the medieval diocese of Argyll and the Isles. When the cathedral fell into ruins after the Reformation, the choir was used as a place of worship. The present building is a result of a reconstruction of the choir in 1749, and, since that time, it has continued to serve a local congregation as the parish church. The Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge, photographed the church in 1882. Built into the external face of the east wall are three 18th-century framed white marble tablets commemorating members of the congregation who have died. One bears a simple cross at the top, while the other two have the respective family coats-of-arms carved in relief. The centre panel was erected in 1787 to James MacGregor of Correctled, who died in 1759, and his wife Marjory, daughter of Alexander Campbell of Airds, who died in 1780, 'the mother of 22 children 12 of whom were interred in this place'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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