Rear (E) face of MacLean's C15th cross & Iona Parish Church, Argyll, designed & built by Thomas Telford 1828-30.

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Rear (E) face of MacLean's C15th cross & Iona Parish Church designed & built by Thomas Telford 1828-30. The Cross, commissioned as a wayside prayer-cross by the Clan MacLean, stands at the junction of three Medieval streets linking the two main landing-places (St Ronan's Bay & Martyr's Bay) to the nunnery & abbey. It is mainly decorated with interlaced plaitwork & foliage. Two animals below disc-head, mounted warrior at base of shaft. Known as a parliamentary church after the 1824 Act of Parliament which provided for the building of new churches & manses in remote Highland parishes.

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Size: 3648px × 4961px
Location: MacLean's Cross & Iona Parish Church, Iona, Argyll, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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