Orkney Smr Note

Date June 1979

Event ID 614230

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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It was a handsome little gothic structure, with nave and chancel, and vaulted roof, supported on 14 pillars. [R1]

Episcopal chapel erected 1714 by James Fea. It was demolished and the site ploughed over c.1830. (The History of Episcopacy at Stove is copiously documented). [R2, R3]

May have been on site of an earlier foundation. No remains visible. [R4]

No trace; site occupied by henhouses and a stone wall. Mr Mackay, headmaster, Central School-house, Sanday, states it is supposed to have been a private chapel of the Sinclairs of Stove and possibly dated from the early C17th.

OS visit Jul 70.

Site occupied by big new steading. It is reported that many bones were turned up in digging the foundations for this.information K H S Foubister, Kettletoft.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Jun 79