South Uist, Ardkenneth, St Michael's Church
Church (19th Century)
Site Name South Uist, Ardkenneth, St Michael's Church
Classification Church (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ardkenneth, Roman Catholic Church Of St Michael
Canmore ID 171956
Site Number NF74NE 35
NGR NF 75857 45896
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/171956
- Council Western Isles
- Parish South Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
Ardkenneth Church, (RC), 1829
Long, rectangular church, with priest's house incorporated into the eastern end in 1878. The church is as plain as could be, with three tall, round-arched windows lighting its coved nave. It has a triple-arched chancel screen on bulbous columns and a pulpit transferred here from the old Pro-Cathedral in Oban in the 1930s. The church dominates the flat machair from its rubble-walled enclosure, its stark dignity echoed in the adjacent statue of Our Lady of the Isles by Hew Lorimer, 1956, the larger and better known version of which stands on Rueval.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NF74NE 35.00 75857 45896
