General view from North-East with man standing in graveyard.

Description General view from North-East with man standing in graveyard.

Date 7/7/1882

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

Catalogue Number SC 743000

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 1707

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 1882. This harled and whitewashed building has a three-bayed south front which survives from the early 14th century, although the walls were reduced by 3m when it was re-roofed. It is supported by the original buttresses, between which lie round-headed windows dating from the mid-18th-century reconstruction. The central bay has an original round-headed doorway, used by the minister to gain access to the pulpit. The west gable (left), topped by a bird-cage belfry, contains the main entrance doorway. The medieval cathedral was dedicated to St Moluag (523-92), an Irish saint who founded a Christian community on Lismore between 561and 564. Moluag was one of the earliest missionaries in Scotland, travelling extensively and preaching to the Picts. He is reputedly buried in the churchyard. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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