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Lochgilphead, Bishopton Road, Christ Church, Cross-slab
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Lochgilphead, Bishopton Road, Christ Church, Cross-slab
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Bishopton (Episcopalian Rectory), Lochgilphead
Canmore ID 125174
Site Number NR88NE 55.02
NGR NR 8599 8837
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/125174
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmichael Glassary
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR88NE 55.02 8599 8837
Bishopton (Episcopalian Rectory), Lochgilphead. Fragment of graveslab found among paving in garden at SE corner of church; a corner with narrow channelled border with loops, and a small equal-armed cross in circle, outside border. Placed against church wall for safety; lower courses of church wall and buttresses show thin slabs, perhaps similar.
Stones removed from a church site, eg. Kilmory (NR88NE 13) or Kilduskland (NR88NE 7), descerated shortly before ?, might have been used for building another church.
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
Part of a cross-slab of uncertain provenance, 0.38m by 0.32m; probably about 0.42m in original width. It bears an outline cross with square armpits, one containing a raised pellet in a sunken quadrant. At the centre is an equal-armed cross within a sunken circle (NR79SE 20.01).
I Fisher 2001.
Field Visit (July 1988)
Carved stone. Part of an Early Christian cross-slab, of uncertain origin, is preserved in the choir [of Christ Church, Lochgilphead]. It is of schist and measures 0.38m by 0.32m by 55mm in thickness. The only undamaged edge is at the right, and if this was original, the width was about 0.42m. It bears an incised outline cross with square armpits, one of which contains a raised pellet in a sunken quadrant. At the centre of the cross-head there is an encircled equal-armed cross within a sunken circle, as on a slab at Kilmahumaig (NR79SE 20.01).
RCAHMS 1992, visited July 1988
