Tarbat Libraries ⋆ Ross and Cromarty Heritage

Tarbat Libraries

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Book Library

While building this site we have accumulated a lot of information that we felt was best gathered together in different books. We hope you will enjoy reading them.

Attribution: Catherine Rae

Photograph Library

Over the years we have been very fortunate to have been given access to many historic photographs and permission to display them on the website. We have now collated them into different albums. We hope you enjoy viewing in them.

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Tarbat » Tarbat Places » Tarbat Churches

This picture shows the bell, following repair in 1994, being lifted back into position at a height of about 50' above ground.

Tarbat Old Parish Church or the Church of St Colman at Portmahomack, Easter Ross, with the Dornoch Firth in the background.

Acknowledgment Thanks are due to Mrs Dorothy Haldane for permission to record excerpts from her late husband's book Ye His Saints.

Map showing various locations, referred to in the text, which are associated with Scotland's saints.

Acknowledgment Thanks are due to Mrs Dorothy Haldane for permission to record excerpts from her late husband's book Ye His Saints.

Rainbow over Tarbat Free Church

The Free Church of Scotland (Continuing), Portmahomack - June 2002

Tarbat Free Church

Tarbat Free Church is a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing). It is reformed, evangelical and presbyterian. The Church is located in the village of Portmahomack, Ross and Cromarty.

This picture shows the interior of the church, the woodwork being fine North American pine

This picture shows the interior of the church, the woodwork being fine North American pine. (This photo courtesy of David and Jane Fulkerson, Plentywood, Montana, USA)

Rev. Dugald Matheson,

Rev. Dugald Matheson, minister during the period in which the present building was erected.

Rev. John MacLeod,

Rev. John MacLeod, minister of the Free Church since 1978

Old Free Church

This building, on the same site as the present one, served the congregation from 1844 to 1893. It is shown here on the day demolition commenced. The builder of the new church, Lamb to name, is visible on the roof.

Tarbat Free Church