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Skye, Portree, Bank Street, Skye Gathering Hall
Hall (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Portree, Bank Street, Skye Gathering Hall
Classification Hall (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 276023
Site Number NG44SE 97
NGR NG 48358 43428
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/276023
- Council Highland
- Parish Portree
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Bank Street Former Jail (now office of Feisean nan Gaidheal), J. Gillespie Graham, 1800 Built for Lord Macdonald for £500, this is the solitary three-bay house visible in Daniell's print. It is now flanked by Peddie & Kinnear's Free Church (originally UP), 1860, and the Skye Gathering Hall, 1879, a brooding, crowstepped hall, revamped by James Mackenzie, c.1900.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
