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Chapel House, 1898, designed and built by John MacIntyre of Barra [...] |
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Kilmory Church, early 16th century Cement capped ruin of church dedicated to St. Maelrubha and probably built by the warlike Eoin Muideartach (John of Moidart), 8th Chief of Clanranald, who died in 1584 having erected a similar church at Kildonnan in Eigg. Opposite a low doorway in the burial enclosure attached to the west end is an arched tomb recess, now mounted with a Clanranald armorial panel dated 1641 , one of an important group of carved stones (see also Kildonnan, Eigg and Howmore, South Uist). Above is an unexpectedly grand monument of 1843 to the wife and children of Maj. Simon Macdonald of Morar -late 17th-century Renaissance style with twisted columns. Within the church ruin and graveyard lie some important 16th-century carved slate slabs and fragments, depicting a kilted archer, huntsman, animals, and foliated cross above a claymore. One panel of a religous figure (now kept on St. Mary's altar) was, until at least 1927, attached to a crucifixion scene, possibly part of a triptych. It has been suggested that this formed part of a carved memorial in the arched tomb recess, similar to the 16th-century Macleod tombs at Rodel, Harris, with whose carving it bears affinities. In what Philip Webb described as 'the rude little churchyard with its ancient ruins standing by', do not miss his robust Arts & Crafts gothic memorial cross, 1893, commissioned by the Astley sisters in memory of their parents, Francis D. P. and Gertrude Astley, and their brother, Francis. [...] |
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Keil Church, Peter MacGregor Chalmers, 1898 Simple white-harled kirk with red sandstone frogging and some decent turn-of-thecentury stained glass (memorial window by Stephen Adam, 1899). It was built on the site of the former parish church of 1799, which in turn replaced the pre-Reformation Cill Choluimchille, of 13 th century origin. Session House, 1774, formerly a school (until 1833 ); restored as a museum, 1997. From the large surrounding graveyard comes a highly important collection of medieval gravestones (now on display in the Session House). These are mostly tapered slabs, probably of the 14 th/15th century Iona School, carved with figures, animals, galleys, swords, and floriated and scrolled ornamentation. South of the church, a tapering, disc-headed medieval cross of greenish schist marks the boundary of the religious sanctuary, its intact shaft ornamented with intertwined plantscrolls, a pair of dragons' heads at its base. Among various good 18th-century headstones and table tombs, significant remnants of the medieval church stand in the kirkyard. Two ruinous Maclean burial aisles occupy the probable site of its transepts. One incorporates into its thick walls moulded and carved fragments of late medieval masonry of Iona school, notably an archway (which probably opened from the main body of the church) and part of a traceried window. [...] |
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