St Clements Church, Rodel, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
The church was built in the 1520s by Alasdair ‘Crotach’ (or hump-backed) MacLeod, as a burial place for the chiefs of Clan Macleod, by the 1560s it ceased to be a place of worship. Various restorations have been carried out firstly in the 1780s, again in 1873 and lastly in 1913. The church has been in state care since 1907 and is currently managed by Historic Environment Scotland. Internally the Church has some very fine and important tombs and burial slabs. Externally there are various sculptures, especially on the tower which seem to be largely ignored in official texts and site descriptions. The one carvings that is refered to is the exhibitionist figure known as a Sheela Na Gig as shown here in the model.
This carving is situated high on the church tower, it was photographed with a telephoto lens at 218mm (35mm equiv).
Photographed: 5 September 2018
Model created: October 2018 using Agisoft PhotoScan standard
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