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St Blane’s Church

South end, Isle of Bute
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Imagine the monastic life at a church founded on one of the earliest Christian sites in Scotland..

St Blane's Church has its roots in a monastery founded here in the AD 500s. This was the home of St Blane – 'fair Blaan of Ceen Garad (Kingarth)' – who may have been buried here on his death.

The structures on this site belong to two eras: that early Christian monastery, abandoned during Viking raids around AD 790, and a later parish church, built in the 1100s and in use until the Protestant Reformation of 1560.

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Ruins of St Blane’s Church on a grassy hillside, featuring two tall gable ends with narrow arched windows and partially collapsed stone walls. A low stone boundary wall encloses the site, with several upright gravestones scattered nearby. Behind the church, dense green trees frame the view, and in the distance, the sea and faint outlines of hills are visible under a pale sky.

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