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Visit a simple medieval church with some remarkable surviving fixtures.

Kinkell Church, built in the 1200s, is a classic medieval Highland church: simply designed and rectangular in shape. But the liturgical features installed in the 1520s are anything but plain. The stone sacrament house in the north of the church is an especially fine fixture.

Kinkell was refitted for Presbyterian worship following the Protestant Reformation of 1560, and declared redundant in 1771. Much of the building was dismantled and building materials recycled for use in a new kirk.

Aerial view of Kinkell Church ruins and surrounding graveyard within a rectangular stone boundary.
Overhead drone view of Kinkell Church ruins and gravestones surrounded by grass and mature trees.
Interior side of Kinkell Church ruin showing stone walls and carved sacrament house features.

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