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Lewis, North Beach, St Lennans Church

Church (period Unassigned)

What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Lewis, North Beach, St Lennans Church as Church (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
St Lennans Church in Lewis is associated with Saint Lennan, a 6th-century Irish monk and missionary believed to have been a companion of St Columba. The church and surrounding area may have been a site of early Christian worship, reflecting the spread of Gaelic monastic influence in the Western Isles of Scotland.

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