St Michael's R.C. Church, Eriskay, South Uist

Opened May 1903. Plain Gothic apsidal church (with presbytery

adjoining) raised on hill overlooking village. Coursed

squared rubble, contrasting painted margins and long and

short dressings. South gable gallery window and windows

flanking cross in apse with stylised plate tracery; other

windows lancets, single 2 or 3-light. Porch at south end of

east wall has pointed doorway and corbelled apex belfry.

Cross finial. Slate roof.

Interior: triple-arched chancel screen with cusped framing

above; altar supported on boat's bow, ship's lamp on nearby

column. Gallery to south with balustraded front. Stone font

in porch may be from an earlier building. Enclosed by

rubble-built wall (harled at south and at east).

Iron bell to north east on iron frame is from S.M.S.

Derfflinger, and recovered from Scapa Flow.