RCAHMS Excursion Guide

Date 2002

Event ID 1022570

Category Project

Type Project

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Between the 23rd and 26th September 2002, the RCAHMS Commissioners were taken to visit a number of significant sites recently recorded by the staff across The Small Isles. To inform this trip an illustrated guide was prepared with a brief summary description of each site, and an introductory text. These short site descriptions were entered into the Canmore database in 2017, but readers are advised to consult the final publication for the most detailed account.

Information from HES (LCK) 30 May 2017

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Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
1019614	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	This large farmhouse, of late 18th or early 19th century date, is attached to an earlier building that now forms its southern wing. In the early 20th century the house was used as a temperance hotel and various ramshackle additions date from that period. M E M Donaldson was a guest here during the preparation of Wonderings in the Western Highlands and Islands (1923). Sir William Petersen's sisters took up residance here, adding the glazed porch as a parlour. [...]	2002
1019618	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	This house, designed by Mauchlen and Weightman and named after the first two lodges, was built in 1929 for the use of the island doctor Dr Martha Devon. The large porch provided a waiting room and the narrow central room was fitted out as a dispensary. [...]	2002
1022533	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	Cleadale House was constructed in the late 18th century by Angus MacDonald of Laig. Originally intended for his sister, its first inhabitant was Neil Mackay, a famous fiddler, who exchanged houses with the parish priest and moved across the island to Sandavore. The house then served as both presbytery and church. A new church was begun in 1910 on a new site a little way to east, though it was still under construction in 1913. The old house was then demolished and a new presbytery was built adjacent to the church. The new house is built of harled rubble, most probably using stones robbed from its predecessor. No architect has been discovered yet for either of the buildings: the involvement of the Marquis of Bute has been suggested, though there appears to be no real evidence of this. In 1913, Robert Thomson, proprietor of the island, bequeathed a pair of silver candlesticks and a Spanish oil painting depicting the descent of Christ to the church. [...]	2002

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