Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641513

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HP50SW 1 53205 04897.

(HP 5317 0492) Chapel (NR) (In Ruins).

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900).

The 14th century church of St Olaf, which served the parish of North Yell until 1750, since when the building has become dilapidated, and the outside covered with sand. Except for the N wall of the chancel, it is now fragmentary. Once abandoned, the church became a burial place, and the accumulation of sand outside has made necessary a new access at the SE corner of the nave (information from T Tulloch, GPO Gutcher, Yell). The successor to this church, also dedicated to St Olaf, stood at HP 5426 0268 (See (M)). A bell, last seen on the beach at Cullivoe, was dated 1694 (information from Shetland Museum 6" map and Card Index).

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931.

The church of St Olaf as described and planned by the RCAHMS.

Revised at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (NKB) 8 May 1969.