This simple 18th century whitewashed church, surrounded by a walled graveyard, is situated on an earlier religious site, between the shore of Glenelg Bay and a bend in the road. It was altered around 1830, including the addition of a sandstone bellcote, and again internally in 1929. Macpherson, the photographer, describes a day trip to Glenelg, his paternal home, in his book 'Gateway to Skye'. " I walked along to the old church, an ugly building in lovely surroundings. The road curves round the wall of the churchyard, then passes close to the Glenelg Hotel..."
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