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[Opposite page - sketch and text inserted] – There is at the British Linen Bank, House, Thurso
a rough ovoid stone meas. [measuring] 1’.6” x 1’.3” with a hollow basin
8” x 9” in dia. [diameter] & 7” in depth which was
brought from the chapel and has probably
been a piscine or a holy water stoup of rude workmanship.

width at the point of intersection is 2”
The arms radiate from a central boss 2 1/2” in diameter
It is convex at the extremity. It is surrounded
by a single moulding and contains a
triquetra knot of interlaced ornament.

Chapel. St. Thomas’s. Skinnet.
Situated about 1/3 m. [mile] to the NE. [North East] of Skinnet
Farm & about 4 m. [miles] S. [South] of Thurso are the ruins of the chapel of St. Thomas.
It is now much ruined. The S. & W. [South and West] walls vary in
height from 3’ to 7’, the N. [North] wall is reduced to
2’ or 3’ as is also the greater part of the E. [East] wall.
In plan the building has been of the chancelled
type measuring interiorly 59’.6” in length. Whereof
the nave measured 38’ x 16’ and the chancel
about 21’ by 13’. the diminution of the width being caused by the [--] of the N. [North] wall only
The walls which have been
built with clay for mortar, are 3’.6” in thickness.
The entrance to the church has been through the S [South] Wall at 12’ from
the SW. [South West] corner and has been 3’ in width while
an entrance to the chancel near its W. [West] end
has also been through the S. [South] wall. In
the S. [South] wall of the nave have been two
small oblong windows 1’.9” in height by
7” in width passing straight through the wall
for 1’.2” and immediately widening thereafter
to 3’. A similar window has existed in
the S. [South] wall of the chancel.
At the SW. [South West] corner of the building on the

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