Old photograph of the Highland Parish Church with a portrait of Minister, Reverend Dugald McCallum, in Campbeltown, Scotland. This church was erected between 1803 and 1806 to accommodate the Gaelic speaking Highland congregation of Campbeltown. The design was commissioned from George Dempster, a Greenock architect, superintendence of the building operations being undertaken by Robert Watt, a Glasgow contractor. The estimated cost of £2,395 was considerably exceeded owing to an ill considered attempt by the heritors and parishioners to change the design of the steeple whilst the structure was in the course of erection, an enterprise which led to the partial collapse of the building. The steeple was demolished by lightning in 1830 and subsequently rebuilt, and again partially demolished and rebuilt in 1885.
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