Immaculate Conception Parish Church, Stratherrick

Immaculate Conception Church, Stratherrick
Grotto in the church grounds
Location Whitebridge, Inverness-Shire
Country Scotland
Denomination Roman Catholic
Website lochnessparishes.dioceseofaberdeen.org
History
Status Parish church
Architecture
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Ross & Joass of Dingwall
Architectural type Church
Completed 1859
Administration
Parish Loch Ness Catholic Parishes
Deanery Highlands
Diocese Aberdeen
Clergy
Priest(s) Fr Andrzej Harden SJ

Immaculate Conception Church, Stratherrick is in the Dalcrag area of Whitebridge, Inverness-Shire, in the Highlands of Scotland and is a part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen.[1] It is an active parish church served from Fort Augustus with regular weekly Sunday Mass at 12.30pm. It forms part of the grouping "Loch Ness Catholic Parishes".[2] It is also a place of local pilgrimage as it has the shrine to 'Our Lady of the Highlands' within its grounds. A new altar at this shrine, or grotto, was dedicated by bishop Hugh Gilbert in March 2017.[3]

History

The church was built in 1859 by Ross and Joass.[4]. The original wooden altar was later replaced by one in marble which was removed from St Mary's, Nairn. Prior to the church being built Mass was said in a house in Dalcrag by a priest based in Glenmoriston who rowed across Loch Ness to say Mass.

St. Mary MacKillop visited this church on the 12-13th December 1873, during a visit from Australia and remarked upon the clean and simple quarters of the Parish Priest, Fr. Bissett.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Stratherrick". Diocese of Aberdeen. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Loch Ness Catholic Parishes". Loch Ness Catholic Parishes. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Bishop Hugh Gilbert at a special dedication Mass, to Bless the New Outdoor Altar at The Shrine of The Immaculate Conception". St Mary's Inverness. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "> Monument MHG47419". Highland Council. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Sisters of St. Joseph". St Mary's RC Church. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  • Historic Environment Scotland. "Stratherrick, Dalcrag, Roman Catholic Church Of The Immaculate Conception And Presbytery (261440)". Canmore.

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