Lewis, St Columb's Church And Graveyard
Burial Ground (Medieval), Church (Medieval)
Site Name Lewis, St Columb's Church And Graveyard
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval), Church (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Eaglais Chaluim Chille
Canmore ID 4233
Site Number NB32SE 1
NGR NB 3858 2104
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/4233
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Lochs
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NB32SE 3858 2104.
(NB 383 210) St Columb's Church (NR) (In Ruins)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1899)
Church of 'St Columkil, in the island of that name' - listed.
M Martin 1934.
The church stands in a graveyard and is oblong on plan, 29ft 6ins x 13ft 3ins, within walls 2ft 6ins thick and on average 6ft high.
RCAHMS 1928.
St Columb's Church, as described by the RCAHMS, is situated in a disused graveyard at NB 3858 2104. The entrance in the south wall, together with a round-headed splayed window, was blocked when the church was used as a private burial vault.
Visited by OS (N K B) 23 June 1969.
NB 3858 2104 This chapel site was included in a research project to identify the chapel sites of Lewis and surrounding islands. The Lewis Coastal Chapel-sites survey recorded 37 such sites.
R Barrowman 2005
Field Visit (22 June 1914)
St Columb's Church, Eilean Chaluim Chille, Loch Erisort.
This church, which stands in a graveyard on the south-eastern shore of Eilean Chaluim Chille, in Loch Erisort, about 2 miles east by south of Keose, is oblong on plan and measures internally 29 feet 6 inches by 13 feet 3 inches, the walls still standing to an average height of 6 feet and measuring 2 feet 6 inches thick. It is orientated almost due east and west. The door is about the middle of the north wall A widely splayed window with rounded top and built up externally opens in the south wall 2 feet 6 inches from the east end. No other windows can now be traced.
RCAHSM 1928, visited 22 June 1914.
OS Map: Lewis xxxiii.
Note
Title: Chapel-sites on the Isle of Lewis: Results of the Lewis Coastal Chapel-sites Survey
Journal: SCOTTISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERNET REPORTS (e-ISSN: 2056-7421)
Author: Barrowman, R C
Publisher: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Date: 2020
MCE (2023): Reviewed as part of the GAPR. Publication was completed in 2020. Open Access publication with SAIR. Publication grant-aided by HES.
