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In and around Saint Conan’s Kirk
St Conan’s Kirk Church of Scotland 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 by the Campbells of Innis Chonan. The church is protected as a category A listed building. In the Bruce Chapel it has finger that is supposed have come from Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.
It was designed by the self-made architect Walter Douglas Campbell, great-grandfather of the Duke of Argyll, and built in 1881-6. The heavy oak beams in the cloister are believed to have come from the (then) recently broken up wooden battleships, HMS Caledonia and HMS Duke of Wellington. It has an eccentric blend of church styles, from ancient Roman to Norman and it was built of local stone. It consists of a nave and chancel, with the chancel-stalls being canopied. Large, unsmoothed boulders of granite from nearby Ben Cruachan, form the piers which carry the chancel arch, and the transepts make the Sacred Cross.
In and around Saint Conan’s Kirk
St Conan’s Kirk Church of Scotland 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 by the Campbells of Innis Chonan. The church is protected as a category A listed building. In the Bruce Chapel it has finger that is supposed have come from Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.
It was designed by the self-made architect Walter Douglas Campbell, great-grandfather of the Duke of Argyll, and built in 1881-6. The heavy oak beams in the cloister are believed to have come from the (then) recently broken up wooden battleships, HMS Caledonia and HMS Duke of Wellington. It has an eccentric blend of church styles, from ancient Roman to Norman and it was built of local stone. It consists of a nave and chancel, with the chancel-stalls being canopied. Large, unsmoothed boulders of granite from nearby Ben Cruachan, form the piers which carry the chancel arch, and the transepts make the Sacred Cross.