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Our Lady Of The Braes Roman Catholic Church, Polnish

A Category B Listed Building in Caol and Mallaig, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.8818 / 56°52'54"N

Longitude: -5.6927 / 5°41'33"W

OS Eastings: 175119

OS Northings: 782790

OS Grid: NM751827

Mapcode National: GBR DBBJ.F7H

Mapcode Global: WH0D4.J9D5

Plus Code: 9C8PV8J4+PW

Entry Name: Our Lady Of The Braes Roman Catholic Church, Polnish

Listing Name: Polnish, Our Lady of the Braes Roman Catholic Church

Listing Date: 17 May 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389841

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43375

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Polnish Chapel
Loch Ailort Chapel
Lochailort Chapel
War Memorial Window
Polnish, Our Lady Of The Braes Roman Catholic Church

ID on this website: 200389841

Location: Arisaig and Moidart

County: Highland

Electoral Ward: Caol and Mallaig

Parish: Arisaig And Moidart

Traditional County: Inverness-shire

Tagged with: Catholic church building

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Description

Believed to date from 1872. Plain, lancet-Gothic whitewashed church, spectacularly-sited on hill-top above Loch Ailort. Steep-gabled with cross finials, rectangular-plan, 3 buttressed bays, door in liturgical west (actually east) gable; lower chancel. Rubble; slate roofs.

Statement of Interest

No longer (1986) in ecclesiastical use.

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