St Conan's Kirk

On our way up to Oban for a couple of days, we stopped of here. St. Conan's Kirk on the banks of Loch Awe,by Dalmally. It is a beautiful wee church with inspiring views over Loch Awe.The church has a very interesting history.
"With the arrival of the railway and subsequent increased accessibility, a certain Walter Douglas Campbell, younger brother of the First Lord Blythswood, bought from the Marquis of Breadalbane the Island of Innischonain, on which he built for himself a stately mansion-house. Here he settled with his sister Helen and his mother. Local tradition has it that the elderly Mrs. Campbell found the long drive to the parish church in Dalmally too much for her, and that her son accordingly decided to build her a church nearby. Walter’s first design, completed in 1886, was relatively simple but he began to dream of a far nobler structure. He started work on this in 1907, and devoted the rest of his life to its execution until he died in 1914." 
Taken from the website.http://http://www.stconanskirk.org.uk/

The extras taken outside the church