North Uist, Trumisgarry Church
Church (19th Century)
Site Name North Uist, Trumisgarry Church
Classification Church (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Trunisgarry Former Church; Trumaisgearraidh, Telford Church
Canmore ID 69531
Site Number NF87SE 30
NGR NF 86721 74805
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/69531
- Council Western Isles
- Parish North Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
Trumisgarry Church and Manse, William Thomson and Joseph Mitchell, 1829 Standard Parliamentary church and twostorey manse, the church - of unharled granite and now roofless - having doubled as a school (closed in 1941 ).
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NF87SE 30 86721 74805
For Trumisgarry manse (NF 86709 74782), see NF87SE 32.
Church: built 1764, roofless.
G Hay 1957.
Walls extant to roof height.
Information from OS, visited 16 June 1965.
Telford church.
S Hackett and N Livingstone 1984.
Thomas Telford former parliamentary church now a roofless though virtually entire shell. Stock design; T-plan, 2 inner windows and outer doors on long east wall, depressed arched openings, windows with simple iron tracery. Rubble- built, with ashlar dressings. Enclosed by rubble-built walls, square gatepiers with pyramidal caps. Ceased ecclesiastical use in 1941(Historic Scotland)
