{"id":618,"date":"2015-04-14T09:35:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T09:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=618"},"modified":"2015-04-14T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T09:36:54","slug":"problems-at-st-comghans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/problems-at-st-comghans\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems at St Comghan&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_619\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1-church.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-619\" class=\"wp-image-619\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1-church.jpg\" alt=\"St Comghan's church\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1-church.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1-church-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1-church-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St Comghan&#8217;s Church which lies in the village of Kilchoan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>St Comghan&#8217;s, the 12th\/13th century church at which the Clan MacIain used to worship &#8211; see history of the church <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/st-comghans-church\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> &#8211; is showing further signs of deterioration. \u00a0Closed in 1831 when the new parish church was built, the site, including the churchyard with its many graves, is an historical monument, but its maintenance lies in the hands of Highland Council. \u00a0During a recent visit,\u00a0Highland Council officers noticed that the main lintel stone over the entrance door is cracked in two places and is, therefore, potentially dangerous.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_620\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2-church.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-620\" class=\"wp-image-620\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2-church.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance to the church, with the lintel stone\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2-church.jpg 1700w, https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2-church-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2-church-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to the church, with the cracked lintel stone<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At a recent meeting, the chairman and secretary of West Ardnamurchan Community Council\u00a0were\u00a0advised that the council would be erecting a barrier across the church entrance. \u00a0Since this is the only way in, this effectively seals off the interior of the church.<\/p>\n<p>The Ardnamurchan Community Archaeology group, which is currently undertaking a survey of grave stones and grave slabs in the churchyard, has contacted Highland Council expressing its concern that the closure should be as brief as possible so that access can be re-established.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Comghan&#8217;s, the 12th\/13th century church at which the Clan MacIain used to worship &#8211; see history of the church here &#8211; is showing further signs of deterioration. \u00a0Closed in 1831 when the new&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,82],"tags":[5,68],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clan-maciain","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-history","tag-st-comgans-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}