“Attached as a nave to the west end of the cell, and externally co-extensive with it in breadth, are the remains of another chapel, internally
Fig. 38.—Teampull Rona. Interior West End Elevation.
14 feet 8 inches in length, and 8 feet 3 inches in width. Except the north one, which is considerably broken down, all the elevations are nearly entire, the west one retaining a part of the gable. A rude flat-headed doorway, 3 feet 5 inches in height and 2 feet 3 inches wide, in the south wall, and a small window of the same shape eastward of it, are the only details.
“At what time either of these buildings was put up it is impossible to say. Both are alike rude in their masonry, and between them there is scarcely a difference in the character of their few inartistic details; but be the age of the larger one what it may, the cell, which may be termed the chancel of the structure at large, is certainly by many hundred years the older erection, and in all probability the work of the eighth or ninth century.”[73]
We have here an example of an ancient oratory enlarged by the addition of a nave into a church with nave and chancel.
TEAMPULL SULA SGEIR.
On a narrow and lofty rock, not more than one-third of a mile in