St Conan’s Kirk
St Conan’s Kirk, Church of Scotland,[1] is located in Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is situated on a crag high above the water amid vegetation which includes roses, honeysuckle, and ivy, and is surrounded by large trees. It was established as a chapel of ease[2] by the Campbells of Innis Chonan.[1] St Conan's Tower is 0.5 miles (0.80 km) away.[3] The church is protected as a category A listed building.[4]
It is renowned for the fragment of bone that is rumoured to have come from Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.
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[edit] Architecture and fittings
It was designed by the self-made architect Walter Douglas Campbell, great-grandfather of the Duke of Argyll, and built in 1881-6; there were renovations in 1906.[5] An eccentric blend of church styles,[6] from ancient Roman to Norman,[7] it is built of local stone. It consists of nave and chancel, the chancel-stalls being canopied. Large, unsmoothed boulders of granite from Ben Cruachan, which is nearby, form the piers which carry the chancel arch, and the transepts make the Sacred Cross. There is also a tower and spire.[8]
Fittings include a small organ.
[edit] Gallery
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Exterior view facing Loch Awe
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Chancel
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Stalls in the chancel
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Railing detail
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Dolphin chairs
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Cloisters
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Chasing dog downspout
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Running hares downspouts
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Carved owls
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St. Conan's statue
[edit] References
- ^ a b Murray, John (1906). Handbook for travellers in Scotland (Public domain ed.). E. Stanford. pp. 193–. http://books.google.com/books?id=vrxCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA193. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
- ^ Groome, Francis Hindes (1884). Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland: a survey of Scottish topography, staistical, biographical and historical (Public domain ed.). T. C. Jack. pp. 532–. http://books.google.com/books?id=uQ5KAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA532. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
- ^ Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison (1896). The last years of St. Andrews: September 1890 to September 1895 (Public domain ed.). Longmans, Green, and co.. pp. 166–. http://books.google.com/books?id=vXIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR166. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
- ^ "St Conan's Church of Scotland: Listed Building Report". Historic Scotland. http://hsewsf.sedsh.gov.uk/hslive/hsstart?P_HBNUM=4700. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- ^ Glendinning, Miles; MacInnes, Ranald; MacKechnie, Aonghus (1996). A history of Scottish architecture: from the Renaissance to the present day. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 559–. ISBN 978-0-7486-0849-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=h0WIGA0QkRgC&pg=PA559. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
- ^ "Lochawe". Undiscovered Scotland. http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/lochawe/lochawe/index.html. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
- ^ Miers, Richenda (1 September 2006). Scotland's highlands & islands. New Holland Publishers. pp. 87–. ISBN 978-1-86011-340-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=OvF3I6_2ZlEC&pg=PA87. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
- ^ The Building news and engineering journal (Public domain ed.). 1883. pp. 690–. http://books.google.com/books?id=8FQcAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA690. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
Coordinates: 56°23′43″N 5°03′14″W / 56.3953°N 5.054°W
