Preaching from the Pulpit

Torridon Open Air Church (Am Ploc), Wester Ross

Torridon Open Air Church is of national importance as it provides on the ground evidence of greatest religious upheaval of the 19th century. The “Disruption” led to religious and social change in Scotland. 
and was a cataclysmic event, culminating in a mass walk out from the Kirk’s General Assembly in Edinburgh. It was the result of tensions in the Church of Scotland going back well over 100 years, to the very beginning of the 18th century. Torridon Open Air Church comprises an open-air preaching place, used for some years after the Disruption by the Free Church congregation of the area around Torridon.