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

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

Date 8/7/1882

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

Catalogue Number SC 743001

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 1706

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. The surviving slated, gable-ended building is precisely orientated in an east-west direction, and, at first glance, has all the characteristics of a mid-18th-century Scottish church. The walls of the three-bayed south front, still buttressed, are largely those of the early 14th century. The round-headed windows between the buttresses were part of the mid-18th-century reconstruction. The west wall (left) has an arched doorway serving as the main entrance to the church, and two rectangular windows which light the west gallery. The gable is topped by a bird-cage belfry. The churchyard, which pre-dates the present church, had its limits determined in 1760. It contains several tapered and parallel-sided slabs varying in date from the 14th to the 16th centuries, some of which represent the Iona school of monumental sculpture, and an early 16th-century tomb-chest lid with a particularly fine carving of a two-handed sword or claymore. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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