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PHOTO ARNISORT CHURCH OF SCOTLAND THE CHURCH WAS PREVIOUSLY FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND AND IT IS LABELLED AS FREE CHURCH ON THE 1881 O.S. MAP. ON THE 1904 O.S. MAP IT HAD BECOME A U.F. CHURCH (UNITED FREE). A POSTCARD FROM THE EARLY C20TH ALSO LABELS IT U.F. CHURCH AND SHOWS THAT AT THAT TIME IT HAD TWO WINDOWS IN THE GABLE-END WALL AND A LOW WALL ENCLOSING THE AREA IN FRONT. ACCORDING TO THE WEB-SITE OF SNIZORT PARISH OF WHICH IT IS NOW PART THE LAND FOR THE CHURCH WAS FEUED BY ALEXANDER MACDONALD OF LYNEDALE HOUSE AND THE ORIGINAL TRUSTEES INCLUDED JOSEPH LAMONT FREE CHURCH MINISTER AT SNIZORT AND NORMAN FERGUSON THE TEACHER LIVING IN THE SCHOOL-HOUSE BEHIND THE CHURCH.IN 1883 JOSEPH LAMONT GAVE A STATEMENT TO THE NAPIER COMMISSION. IN THIS IN THANKING CERTAIN LANDOWNERS FOR THEIR KINDNESS TO THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND HE WROTE:WE ARE EXTREMELY GRATEFUL TO ALEXANDER MDONALD ESQ. OF LYNDALE FOR HANDING OVER TO US A SMALL MISSION CHURCH NOT REQUIRED BY THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH: BUT FROM WHICH THEY EXCLUDED US AT THE DISRUPTION. WAS THIS A REFERENCE TO THE CHURCH AT ARNISORT?THE FEU CHARTER BY ALEXANDER MACDONALD DATED 21/1/1876 CLEARLY IMPLIES THAT THIS WAS THE CASE FOR IT REFERS TO THE CHURCH ALREADY ERECTED ON THE SAID PIECE OF GROUND. WHETHER THE CHURCH HAD FALLEN INTO DISREPAIR OR HAD NEVER ACTUALLY BEEN COMPLETED THE CHARTER REQUIRED OF THE TRUSTEES THAT IT SHALL BE COMPLETELY FINISHED IN A SUFFICIENT AND TRADESMANLIKE MANNER WITHIN THE PERIOD OF TWO YEARS FROM THE DATE HEREOF. THEY WERE ALSO REQUIRED TO BUILD AROUND THE CHURCH A GOOD AND SUFFICIENT WALL NOT LESS THAN FOUR FEET HIGH OF STONE AND LIME. AS MENTIONED ABOVE A SURROUNDING WALL CAN BE SEEN IN THE POSTCARD PICTURE THOUGH IT APPEARS TO BE LESS THAN FOUR FEET HIGH.THE 1835 REPORTS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND HAS AN ENTRY IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE I REPORT TO YOU THE COMPLETION OF THE NEW CHURCH AT ARNIZORT (SIC) WHICH GIVES US THE DATE OF ITS ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION.HOWEVER THE ORIGINAL ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOK 1878 AVAILABLE ON THE SCOTLANDSPLACES WEB-SITE HAS THIS ENTRY: FREE CHURCH. A NEAT EDIFICE SITUATED ON THE N.W. OF THE PUBLIC ROAD LEADING FROM PORTREE TO DUNVEGAN ABOUT 12 MILES FROM THE FORMER & 11 1/4 FROM THE LATTER. IT WAS ERECTED IN THE YEAR 1869 AND IS SEATED TO ACCOMMODATE 500 PERSONS. PRESUMABLY THE 1869 BUILDING REPLACED THE EARLIER ONE.THERE IS WHAT APPEARS TO BE A REFERENCE TO THE CHURCH AND SCHOOLHOUSE IN A LETTER PRINTED IN THE SCOTSMAN 26 JULY 1869 FROM A RESIDENT OF WATERNISH PART OF THE PARISH OF DUIRINISH. IN THE PARISH OF BRACADALE NEXT TO DUIRINISH IS A CHAPEL WHICH WAS BUILT UNDER SOME CHURCH OF SCOTLAND SCHEME BUT WHICH WAS NOT ENDOWED - IT IS NOW A RUIN. THERE WAS ANOTHER SIMILAR CHAPEL IN A DISTRICT OF THIS PARISH RENDERED USELESS BY THE DISRUPTION OF 1843 - IT IS NOW A BARN PART OF A FARM-STEADING. IN THE ADJOINING PARISH OF SNIZORT WAS ANOTHER OF THESE CHAPELS BUT THE PROPRIETOR ON WHOSE GROUND IT WAS BUILT GAVE IT TO THE FREE CHURCH; IT WAS RECENTLY PULLED DOWN AND HANDSOMELY AND SUBSTANTIALLY REBUILT (NOT YET FINISHED) AND A GOOD SCHOOL AND SCHOOLMASTERS HOUSE ALSO BUILT BY THE FREE CHURCH ADJOINING THE NEWLY REBUILT CHAPEL.THOUGH ARNISORT IS IN THE PARISH OF DUIRINISH IT WAS IN THE FREE CHURCH PARISH OF SNIZORT. A SUBSEQUENT LETTER BY THE SAME WRITER IN THE JOHN OGROAT JOURNAL 9 SEPT 1869 CONFIRMS THAT HE WAS REFERRING TO ARNISORT.THE CHURCH WAS STILL UNFINISHED AND UNUSABLE IN 1874. A LETTER IN THE GLASGOW HERALD 14 DEC 1874 APPEALS FOR FUNDS TO COMPLETE THE CHURCH WHICH WAS WITHOUT DOORS WINDOWS OR SEATING AND ITS WALLS UNPLASTERED. THE WRITER COMMENTS THE UNFINISHED STATE OF THE BUILDING IS A MELANCHOLY PROOF OF THE HELPLESS POVERTY OF THE DISTRICT.THE INVERNESS COURIER 15 JAN 1901 RECORDS THAT: THE UNITED FREE MISSION CHURCH OF ARNISORT SKYE HAS BEEN FORMALLY OPENED AFTER HAVING UNDERGONE CONSIDERABLE REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS. REV. JOSEPH LAMONT SNIZORT WHO FOR MANY A YEAR HAD BEEN MODERATOR OF THIS STATION PREACHED IN THE FORENOON AND MR MURRAY THE RESPECTED MISSIONARY OF THE PLACE IN THE EVENING TO LARGE ATTENDANCES. 2007 COPYRIGHT (Photograph and text in Extra Info) JOHN LORDPHOTO PAPER THICKNESS NORMAL PHOTOGRAPH THICKNESS
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