Dalarossie / Clach-an-t-shagairt / Dail-a-Ferghais / Dulergussie

***CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE: WALKER DOCUMENTED IT IN 1887 BUT CLAIM OF 1940s CARVING BELOW] -- Described and illustrated in Walker (1887) as "a curious stone, known as Clach-an-t-shagairt, or the Priest's Stone. It is a rounded block of gray gneiss [...]". The basin is quite circular except on the upper right side where it extends 4 cm beyond the true circle. The stone itself is circular, except on one side, where it forms a stright line of 50 cm. The breadth of the ring round the basin is 15 cm on average, except on the same side, where it narrows to less than half this width. "It is said to have been used for baptismal purposes [...] About twenty years ago, it was bored through the bottom by a mason called McGregor, for what purpose it is impossible now to conjecture." (ibid.) The entry for this church in Historic Scotland [Source ID: 348358 / Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14884] notes: "Circular stone font roughly hewn from boulder supported by boulder plinth." The entry for this church in the Highland Historic Environment Record / Clàr Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil na Ghàidhealtachd [MHG2842 - Dalarossie Church / Listed Building (B) 14884] notes: "Clach an t-Sagairt, a baptismal font as described and planned; not a cup-marked stone; still in Dalarossie Church. Visited by OS (N K B) 8 November 1966. [...] According to local tradition the bowl-shaped stone was supposedly found in the ground when the glebe land was being ploughed. It was then placed within the kirkyard, leaning against the gate, and was there within living memory. It was taken into the church during the incumbency of Mr Cameron (1932-40). It was created into a font in the 1940s on the recommendation of Miss Kathleen Mackenzie of Glenkyllachy and Ann Glynne-Percy's mother, Mrs Douglas Bulloch. The problem was supporting the bowl, since no support was found in the field. Ann Glynn-Percy and her mother searched the ruins of Harriet's Croft, near Old Dalarossie Schoolhouse, and found a suitable stone. Murdo MacAskill then crafted the font as it is today. Information from Ann Glynne-Percy, Strathdearn News April 2001".