Plockton, Open Air Church
Preaching Site (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Plockton, Open Air Church
Classification Preaching Site (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 161360
Site Number NG73SE 70
NGR NG 7999 3325
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/161360
- Council Highland
- Parish Lochalsh
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NG83SW 32 8011 3323
Previously entered in error at NG 8011 3023.
Possibly extends onto map sheet NG73SE.
For comparable sites at Aite na h'Uardighean, Achiltibuie (NC 0172 0925) and Am Ploc, Torridon (NG 8953 5624), see NC00NW 5 and NG85NE 15 respectively.
An exercise in sympathetic clearance, consolidation and reconstruction was undertaken on the open air church at Plockton by Conservation Volunteers on behalf of the National Trust for Scotland.
Information from M Wildgoose 28 May 1998; NMRS, MS/1027/2.
Scheduled as 'Plockton Open Air Church... an open-air preaching place, used for some years after the Disruption by the Free Church congregation of the area around Plockton.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 1 March 2000.
Measured Survey (20 April 1998 - 23 April 1998)
During a four day period, from 20th to the 23rd April a group of Conservation Volunteers conducted a tidying-up campaign on the somewhat neglected site of the Open Air Church at Plockton. During these four days a number of projects were tackled:
1. A plan of the site drawn in September 1995 was checked for accuracy
2. Profiles were drawn of both the length and width of the auditorium
3. The gorse, which totally covered teh site was removed
4. A number of small trees growing in the seating terraces were removed
5. Damaged seating terraces on both the east and west sides of the auditorium were consolidated.
6. A small area of damaged seating on the east side of the auditorium was reconstructed to original conditon
7. Loose stone was removed from the site.
8. A photographic record was kept before, during and after completion of the work.
Information from NTS (SCS) January 2016
Nts Note (7 January 2016)
Previously entered in the incorrect Map Sheet (NG83SW) and location (180110, 833230) which placed it on the south side of the Plockton Road
Corrected to Map Sheet NG73SE and location 179990, 833250.
Information from NTS (SCS) January 2016
