Ardentinny Church Archives

June 17, 2019

Planning Applications – Ardentinny Church

A ‘Proposed Works to Listed Building’ notice has been posted by Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park at Ardentinny Church which was recently offered for sale and is now ‘Under Offer’. The notice pertains to the removal of ‘ecclesiastical fixtures prior to sale’. The fixtures include the Communion Table; Canopy; Pulpit; Pews; and War …

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October 11, 2018June 17, 2019

Ardentinny Church 179 years on.. The bell falls silent

Queen Victoria was just 20, the first commercial electric telegraph line came into use and Ireland was hit by the worst cyclone in 300 years. It was 1838, and the Douglas Family (the then Laird of Glenfinart) had commissioned a small church on the banks of Loch Long. Last weekend Ardentinny Church held its …

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July 5, 2015January 17, 2022

Glenfinart revisited

A recent visitor to Glenfinart Walled Garden had a fascinating story to tell. It was only Don Ward's second visit to the village since 1960. On that occasion he was accompanying his mother Helen Bonnieman who had lived in Ardentinny as a child. Helen was born in 1908 and moved to Ardentinny at an …

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