Architecture Notes

Event ID 729791

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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HY21NW 26.00 23454 19874

HY21NW 26.01 23460 19864 Churchyard

HY21NW 42 23488 19876 Sandwick, St Peter's Kirk, Stable

Dates from 1836 but this structure was built on the foundations of an earlier church c.1670-1767.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Record Office:

GD/150/1890 [transferred to Orkney]

The church is described as 'most ruinous'. The roof has almost wholly fallen in and the walls are too decayed to support a new roof. Petition from Mr William Maxwell, Minister of United churches of Dunrossness and other parishes, 1736

GD/217/1130

Building of a new Church.

William G Watt has prepared a plan for a new Church.

This plan is adopted and a Specification and Estimate are requested.

Minute of a Meeting of the Heritors, 1835

GD/217/1135

Expense of building the new Church (1836-3).

Summary account. It amounts to £633.9. 8 1/2, 1839

Bruce of Symbister on permenant loan to Shetland Archives

Repair of the Parish Church.

Account: £203.12.4

Alexander McDonald, Contractor, 1875