St Columba’s Church
St Columba's Church is a Category B listed building on the isle of Canna, in the Small Isles, Highland, Scotland.Photo: Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Lady-shirakawa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Church
- Description: church in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Canna, Church Of Scotland”, “Rhu Church”, “Rocket Chuch”, and “St Columba’s Church, Canna”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Canna and Sanday.
Canna
Photo: Emoscopes, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Canna is the westernmost of the Small Isles off the west coast of Scotland. It's joined by a road to the smaller tidal island of Sanday. Canna, Sanday and their surrounding skerries are managed by the National Trust for Scotland, and are run as a farm and conservation area.
Sanday
Island
Photo: Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sanday is one of the Small Isles, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It is a tidal island linked to its larger neighbour, Canna, via sandbanks at low tide, and also connected to the larger island by a bridge.
Beinn Tighe
Peak
Photo: Peter Van den Bossche, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beinn Tighe is a peak, which is situated 1½ miles west of St Columba’s Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include A’ Chill.
A’ Chill
Hamlet
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
A' Chill was a village on Canna, in the Scottish Small Isles. The name means "the cell", referring to a Culdee church, and is often anglicised as "Kil-" in many other Scottish names.
St Columba’s Church
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.0587° or 57° 3′ 31″ northLongitude
-6.49349° or 6° 29′ 37″ westOpen location code
9C9M3G54+FJOpenStreetMap ID
way 206996526OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q17829526
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In Other Languages
“St Columba’s Church” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه القديس كولومبا”
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Highlights include Canna House, Canna and Coroghon Castle.
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