Listed Building: ERISKAY ST MICHAEL'S R.C. CHURCH (LB18770)

Opened May 1903. Plain Gothic apsidal church (with presbytery adjoining) raised on hill overlooking village. Coursed squared rubble, contrasting painted margins and long and short dressings. South gable gallery window and windows flanking cross in apse with stylised plate tracery; other windows lancets, single 2 or 3-light. Porch at south end of east wall has pointed doorway and corbelled apex belfry. Cross finial. Slate roof. Interior: triple-arched chancel screen with cusped framing above; altar supported on boat's bow, ship's lamp on nearby column. Gallery to south with balustraded front. Stone font in porch may be from an earlier building. Enclosed by rubble-built wall (harled at south and at east). Iron bell to north east on iron frame is from S.M.S. Derfflinger, and recovered from Scapa Flow. Built during ministry of Father Allan MacDonald, poet and folklorist.