One-Man Churches in the Western Isles
27-05-2026 20:27 via tenthmedieval.wordpress.com

One-Man Churches in the Western Isles

In recent years a lot of my posts have been collections of photos from very long ago of things medieval, and while that is in some ways fine – I’m here to tell you about them – it has struck me of late that they haven’t all had a point. I felt the last one worked better for having even the semblance of one, but then having promised there to talk about the Islay church of Kilmeny, had to wonder what the actual point of doing so was. Then a friend of mine coincidentally ran
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