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Repository	Scottish Catholic Archives
Ref No	SCA/GD/140/11
Title	St. Mary’s, Eskadale
Date	[c 1934-c 1952]
Level	Item
Description	This unfinished pencil drawing describes the rear elevation of St. Mary’s church; the foreground is dominated by the churchyard, where copious Celtic cross headstones are carefully-drawn and line the path to the church; the apparently haphazard headstones
Physical Description	Pencil drawing
Admin_History	The church of St. Mary’s in Eskadale was opened in 1827 with the aim of providing a better place of worship for the area’s Catholics than could be had in nearby Strathglass, replacing, in a sense, the chapel that had been built at Aiges in 1801. Building
AccessConditions	Open for consultation, some sections closed as they hold personal data subject to the Data Protection Act
PublnNote	Forbes, Flora: St. Mary’s, Eskadale, Inverness-shire, 1827-1977 (Edinburgh, 1977); The Catholic Directory for Scotland 1831

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