Monument record 1669 - BERNERAY

Summary

Post-Reformation Telford church, now ruinous

Location

Grid reference NF 93080 82020 (point)
Map sheet NF98SW
Island Berneray
Parish HARRIS, Western Isles

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Full Description

NF98SW 24 9308 8202

A quoad sacra church, accommodation for c. 270. In fair repair in 1878.
Name Book Inverness-shire (Hebrides)

Unroofed. Walls extant to roof height.
Visited by OS (RB) 26 June 1965

A Telford parliamentary church, built 1829.
G Hay 1957

A church and a manse with four outbuildings are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Hebrides, Harris, North Uist etc 1880, sheet xxvi). All the buildings are roofed.
Six roofed and one unroofed building, which is located on the site of the church, are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 7 April 1997


G Hay, 1957a, The Architecture of Scottish Post-Reformation Churches, 1560-1843, 259 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3031.

Name Book (County), 1998, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Book no. 3, p. 20 (Unpublished document). SWE4254.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: G Hay. 1957a. The Architecture of Scottish Post-Reformation Churches, 1560-1843. 259.
  • --- Unpublished document: Name Book (County). 1998. Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book no. 3, p. 20.

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Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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