Lismore, St Moluag's Cathedral. General view from North-East with man bending down in graveyard.

Description Lismore, St Moluag's Cathedral. General view from North-East with man bending down in graveyard.

Date 8/7/1882

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

Catalogue Number SC 742979

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 1708

Scope and Content Lismore Parish Church, Argyll & Bute, from the south-west 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 1885. This harled and whitewashed building has a three-bayed south front, divided by projecting buttresses, an original feature dating from the early 14th century. Each bay contains a round-headed window, reconstructed in the 18th century, and the central bay has an original round-headed doorway, used by the minister to gain access to the pulpit. The west gable wall (left), which contains the main doorway, is topped by a bird-cage belfry. The medieval cathedral church originally consisted of a nave and choir, constructed in an east-west orientation and built of local limestone and whinstone rubble, with dressings from the Ardtornish quarries. It continued the line of the existing choir-church, although little, except the foundations, now exists of the nave. In 1679 the building was 'altogether without a roof' but in 1749 a major reconstruction programme restored the choir whose walls were lowered by about 3m before it was re-roofed. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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