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KINTYRE'S CHURCH ORGANS
The peninsula of Kintyre, attached to the Gaelic-speaking West Highlands of Scotland, lies south and west ofScotland's metropolis of Glasgow and its main town of Campbeltown is less than thirty 'sailing miles' from NorthernIreland, the consequence being that Kintyre lies in the midst, almost equidistantly and distinctly, from three quitedifferent regions and cultures.At the end of the 1970's, Campbeltown contained three congregations belonging to The Church of Scotland and onecongregation each for The Free Church of Scotland, The United Free Church of Scotland, The Roman CatholicChurch, The Scottish Episcopal Church, others in the community belonging to 'The Open Brethern', The SalvationArmy and The Jehovah's Witnesses and in times past also had congregations of Methodists, Baptists andCongregationalists and Good Templars.The different denominations bear witness to past migrations, social schisms, moral campaigns and ethnic mixing.The only remaining pipe organ in use, is in
Campbeltown's St. Kiaran's Scottish Episcopal Church
- The two-manual organ, built by Brook of Glasgow, has a tracker action and, rather unusually, has the Swell manual placedbelow the Great, the reasoning and logic of that unknown - Seemingly the organ may have been built for use as a'private house organ' for it was given, or sold, to the church by Colonel Proudfoot Dick of the now demolishedKillellan House, on the Southend road, St. Kiaran's first service in the present building on August 16, 1891.When
Campbeltown's Lochend United Free Church
was demolished in 1984, its 1922-built Harrison pipe organ
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