Escola
Kilmartin Church and graveyard
2 moradores locais recomendam,
Dicas de moradores locais
Sally
September 30, 2020
The churchyard is beside the Kilmartin Glen Museum and Cafe and is a great introduction to the history and magic of this area. A visit to the Cafe is recommended after all the graveyard explorations.
Peter & Anna
March 14, 2021
You enter the churchyard through the arched gateway erected in 1921 as a memorial to those who died in the 1914-1919 war. The date is a reminder that Scottish war memorials tend to take the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919 as the end point of the war rather than the armistice that came into effect on 11 November 1918. The most complete of these is an early Christian cross, which probably dates back to the 900s. This shows signs of two distinct phases of carving. The work on one side was done before - perhaps long before - an arm broke off, and the original reverse of the stone was then carved with a narrower cross that fitted the space available. The more striking of the two main crosses originally had long cross pieces. This seems likely to be considerably later in date than its neighbour. Both arms were broken and lost during its long history, but one was rediscovered in 1973, built into a culvert near the church. Until fairly modern times the two crosses stood in socketed stones (which can still be seen) either side of the path leading to the church from the churchyard gateway. The stone set against the wall is a fragment of a cross thought to date back to the 1400s. These three crosses, together with a truly magnificent collection of sculptured West Highland graveslabs found in the churchyard and covered in a separate feature are evidence that Christianity in Kilmartin long predates the building of the church you see today.The siting here of a cross dating back a further several centuries suggests that even the medieval church was only a replacement for something earlier on the site and it is entirely possible that there was a series of earlier churches, perhaps moving from wood and turf construction to something more substantial. When you look at today's church, bear in mind it is not just a building approaching two hundred years old: rather it may well be just the latest in a long line of churches and chapels on the same site that could have stood on this site for more than a millennium.
You enter the churchyard through the arched gateway erected in 1921 as a memorial to those who died in the 1914-1919 war. The date is a reminder that Scottish war memorials tend to take the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919 as the end point of the war rather than the armistice that came into effe…
Kilmartin Church and graveyard por Experiências do Airbnb
Conheça pontos turísticos icônicos com as Experiências do Airbnb, pequenas atividades em grupo lideradas por moradores locais
Localização
A816
Kilmartin, Scotland