Building record MHG8777 - St. Michael's Chapel, Kirkmichael
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 7059 6585 (14m by 7m) (Buffered by site type) |
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| Map sheet | NH76NW |
| Geographical Area | ROSS AND CROMARTY |
| Operational Area | ROSS SKYE AND LOCHABER |
| Civil Parish | RESOLIS |
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Site visit 20/10/2003 following ivy cut back, photos of church - HAW 10/2003
Site visit HAW 1/10/2003: new support props holding up the church, & several of the gravestones have been boxed with the spare timber. SMC has been granted for removal of ivy, but this work has not yet started - HAW 10/2003
See also:
NH76NW0199 Graveyard
J Aitken : 12/12/02
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HAW- site visit 11/9/2002: Photos: church building is supported with wooden props, holding up one side. Badly overgrown with ivy etc in parts. Holes in slate roof on both sides. Graveyard has been extended with relatively modern extension. Possible that original boundary survives as grass covered stone bank. Possible also that what was originally part of church building has been reused as base for later mortuary chapel/walled family tomb.
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Proposal 10/99 to prepare a schedule of works for consolidation of church. See associated documents files.
JW 1/11/99
RCAHMS Notes are as follows:
NH76NW 1 7058 6585.
(NH 7058 6585) St. Michael's Chapel (LB) OS 6" map, (1959)
St. Michael's Church was parish church - and origin of name - of Kirkmichael, became 1662 church of combined parishes of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, now called Resolis.
It continued in use until a new church was built at Resolis 1767. Thereafter it was allowed to fall into decay.
Part of centre of church was re-roofed in 19th century for use as a mausoleum. NSA (written by Rev D Sage - 1836) 1845; Name Book 1875; W J Watson 1904; H Scott et al 1915-61.
The remains of St. Michael's Church are oriented E-W, and consist of an unroofed chancel and nave. The roofed central portion, 7.1m square, is a private burial place of Munros of Poyntzfield.
The chancel measures 5.8m x 5.4m externally with walls 0.7m wide. The most interesting feature of building is remains of a wall which projects westwards from NW angle of mausoleum. It is constructed of poorly-bonded, uncoursed, rubble-masonry, with small stone pinings. It is 3.6m in length, 1.3m high and 0.8m wide, with remains of an archway visible on its inside face. It obviously pre-dates mausoleum and chancel in construction, and is probably a section of original N wall of church. Name of church was confirmed locally.
Visited by OS (R B) 21 January 1966.
Sources/Archives (6)
- --- SHG25969 Image/Photograph(s): Geddes F. 2012. Photographs of St. Michael's Chapel, Kirkmichael. Colour. Digital.
- --- SHG2597 Text/Publication/Volume: NSA. 1845. The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy. Vol. 14, Ross and Cromarty, 38.
- --- SHG2675 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1979. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of the Black Isle, Ross and Cromarty District, Highland Region. . 19, No. 116.
- --- SHG2773 Text/Publication/Volume: Scott, H et al (eds.). 1915-61. Fasti ecclesiae Scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation. Rev.. Vol. 7, 18.
- --- SHG2917 Text/Publication/Volume: Watson, W J. 1904. Place names of Ross and Cromarty. 120-1.
- --- SHG3358 Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 27, 25.
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Record last edited
Feb 11 2014 10:07AM
