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Field Visit
Date July 1985
Event ID 1156637
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156637
Hoy Old Kirk HY 2356 0463 HY20SW 1
The old parish church, rebuilt in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, is a roofless shell, and there is no trace of the likely medieval precursor on the same site.
RCAHMS 1989, visited July 1985.
(Stat. Acct., 16, 1795, 547; Name Book, Orkney, No. 10, p. 59; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 112, No. 387; OR 1915).