Archaeology Notes

Event ID 860860

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY44NW 2 43949 48822.

(HY 4396 4882) Church (NAT) (In Ruins).

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

The remains of the Lady Kirk (J R Tudor 1883), built in the 13th century, but restored to such an extent in the 17th century, that the only original building left is the lowest 8' of the south wall of the nave, the footing of the west gable and part of the wall that contains the chancel arch.

The church comprises a rectangular nave and a chancel which is canted southwards. The masonry is rubble with freestone dressings and is lime mortared except for the older work which seems to have been bedded in clay. The walls are complete although on the outside, except at the NE angle, they are partly concealed by accumulation of soil.

This was the parish church, and the graveyard, which surrounds it, was stil in use in 1879.

Name Book 1880; RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930.

Lady Kirk (as on Historic Buildings and Monuments {Ministry of Works} plaque), as described, planned and illustrated.

Visited by OS (RL) 27 June 1970.