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Field Visit

Date 26 July 1924

Event ID 932175

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/932175

Chapel, Nunton.

Within a graveyard at Nunton is the roofless shell of a small church, oblong on plan, built of rubble in mortar. It measures 24 ¾ feet by 15 ¾ feet over walls 2 ½ feet thick. The entrance, centred in the west gable, is Surmounted by a small square niche; in the opposite gable is a small narrow window, and there are two others similar in each of the side walls.

The ruin is in fair condition, but the ground has silted up considerably.

"In the island of Benbecula there was a nunnery on the farm now called Nuntown. The building was taken down and the stones used in the building of Clanranald's mansion and office-houses."-New Stat. Acct., vol. xiv., p. 188: cf. No. 382.

RCAHMS 1928, visited 26 July 1924.

OS map: South Uist xliv.

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