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Architecture Notes
Event ID 729791
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/729791
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
