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Barra, Castlebay, Barra Parish Church

Church (19th Century)
Barra, Castlebay, Barra Parish Church
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Barra Parish Church stands in Castlebay, a nineteenth-century building on the western edge of Scotland. It is the kind of place where wind enters through every crack and prayer competes with the sound of the sea. People may have knelt there during storms, asking for nothing more than the return of a boat. The church still belongs to Barra, unchanged in its purpose even when the island disappears into fog.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Barra, Castlebay, Barra Parish Church as Church (19th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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Photo: Hugh Venables · CC BY-SA 2.0