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August 2008

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Iona Abbey

August 9-15, 2008

      
The Abbey cloisters - almost all a modern reconstruction

 
  with some fine modern carvings around
 
Only a couple of the original pillars were usable in the reconsruction
 
  The interior of the Catholic Michael Chapel at the rear of the Abbey
 
The green-veined Iona marble in the pillars of the font in the abbey church
 
 
 
Iona marble in the high altar of the Abbey Church 
     
The effigies of the 8th Duke and Duchess of Argyll - she is buried here and he started the restoration of the abbey, and gave it and the surrounding area to the Church of Scotland in 1899.
     
  

Old stone carving with some modern replacement in the Abbey Church

 

 


 
   

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