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East Church, Cromarty

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East Church
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natalie w
United Kingdom1 contribution
Beautiful
Jul 2021 • Solo
Beautiful and well taken care of. Amazing first visit. Such friendly people in the area too. I had a wander while the rest of my group played on the beach and it was wonderful to see the carvings and work. The church was lovely to have a walk in and so much local history
Written 16 July 2021
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Sarah W
Pinner, UK11 contributions
Lovely place
Jun 2021 • Family
This is dignified and just a lovely place to go and look round. The graveyard is very interesting just reading the headstones is very interesting.
Written 9 June 2021
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machinmad
Yaxley, UK2,120 contributions
Enjoyable ...
Sep 2020
This picturesque ramble starts by the shoreline, works past the church, with commanding views right and left to two Firths. Ignore the oil rigs. It slowly winds up hill, past a Neolithic rock hunting ground and pushes upwards quite steeply to reach a viewpoint, with one seat. Take sometime here to admire the view and look for dolphins, because this is the best viewpoint on the walk. There’s absolutely no view when you reach the small car park at the top!
Written 21 October 2020
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Gordon M
Buxton, UK10 contributions
East Church: an exercise in quiet
Oct 2020
It's a quiet, dusty sort of place full of a smell of age and a suggestion of damp and is absolutely captivating. I love the sense of a building that really belonged to that community and the feet that wore the floorboards smooth and the hands that rounded the edges of the pews. There are fascinating touches in painted panels and left-over armourial designs...fragments now, relics of the spectacle they once offered.

Really worth a visit. Take time to sit, downstairs and upstairs, get a sense of the place and the peace it still holds
Written 2 October 2020
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david h
Worthing, UK59 contributions
Amazing!
Oct 2019
This church when it was decided not to be used as the Parish Church was taken over and is maintained by Scottish Redundant Churches Trust, now Historic Churches Scotland. After visiting many churches over many years, we have never found another church anything like it at all; it is breath-taking in its uniqueness. It has to be seen to be appreciated and from a personal point of view it is wonderful that it is so loved and cared for by all concerned.
Written 17 October 2019
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Lucy R
Roydon, UK70 contributions
Lovely building
Oct 2019 • Couples
Beautiful building. I’ve never seen a church built like this one. We enjoy looking round graveyards and trying to find the oldest one, so this one was perfect!
Written 14 October 2019
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Kenneth1960
Edinburgh, UK320 contributions
Fascinating restoration and historic space - worth a visit.
Oct 2019
Fascinating restoration of this historic church building - giving a real sense of history and place. Not difficult to conjour up images of the minister in the pulpit and the congregation in the pews. The historic grave yards creates a real sense of the place and people of Cromarty too.
Written 14 October 2019
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ChanC
2 contributions
A church worth visiting
Aug 2019
We went to Cromarty to look for Dolphins and decided to walk around. We came across this church and decided to look in as it was open. Now cared for by theScottish Reduntant Churches Trust and has Heritage Lottery Funded.On first seeing the church it does not look architecturely beautiful but inside it is full of interest. There are pamphlets which are inside and information boards to guide you. It is well worth a visit and would be interesting for children as well. Even in the graveyard there is information about particular gravestones - changing styles of writing over several hundred years. Graves date back to the 1700s. It brings home infant mortality. I am not religious but I found this church particularly different , hence the review.
Written 30 August 2019
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rosetaole8
London, UK45 contributions
Don't miss it
Aug 2019 • Couples
Unexpected beauty. Had a walk through the old graves and then visited Hugh5 Miller ' s cottage. Don't miss church street. Full of interested places to visit
Written 25 August 2019
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Sam S
Charlottesville, VA43 contributions
Interesting old church
Jul 2019 • Friends
This old church is worth the walk. A quiet spot to learn some history and also reflect on the many worshipers who have been there. A nice small town spot
Written 26 July 2019
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