Saint John's Churchyard
Ballachulish, Highland, Scotland
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The name Ballachulish (from Scottish Gaelic, Baile a' Chaolais) means "the Village by the Narrows". The narrows in question is Caolas Mhic Phàdraig - Peter or Patrick's son's narrows, at the mouth of Loch Leven.
St John's Church was built in 1842, consecrated in 1844 and the chancel added in 1888. Before St John's was built, a small storehouse was used as a church and this storehouse still stands in the Burial Grounds of the main church. This building was used during the Penal Laws, or people met secretly in caves or on the hillsides, and was gifted by John Stewart, Laird of Ballachulish House.
St John's is the "Mother Church" of the area and is in possession of the Altar Vessels inscribed "Parish of Appine, 1723″, which were purportedly used for Communion by the Jacobite troops on the evening before the Battle of Culloden in 1745. Signs at the church make it clear that the Applin Chalice is not held on the premises.
The graveyard has some fine gravestones which have well preserved inscriptions, as they have been made from Ballachulish slate.
[Extracted from the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles - Scottish Episcopal Church website, http://www.argyll.anglican.org/churches/ballachulish/history-2/]
(Church added by Lancashire Lass)
The name Ballachulish (from Scottish Gaelic, Baile a' Chaolais) means "the Village by the Narrows". The narrows in question is Caolas Mhic Phàdraig - Peter or Patrick's son's narrows, at the mouth of Loch Leven.
St John's Church was built in 1842, consecrated in 1844 and the chancel added in 1888. Before St John's was built, a small storehouse was used as a church and this storehouse still stands in the Burial Grounds of the main church. This building was used during the Penal Laws, or people met secretly in caves or on the hillsides, and was gifted by John Stewart, Laird of Ballachulish House.
St John's is the "Mother Church" of the area and is in possession of the Altar Vessels inscribed "Parish of Appine, 1723″, which were purportedly used for Communion by the Jacobite troops on the evening before the Battle of Culloden in 1745. Signs at the church make it clear that the Applin Chalice is not held on the premises.
The graveyard has some fine gravestones which have well preserved inscriptions, as they have been made from Ballachulish slate.
[Extracted from the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles - Scottish Episcopal Church website, http://www.argyll.anglican.org/churches/ballachulish/history-2/]
(Church added by Lancashire Lass)
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