Yell, Vollister
Chapel (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Yell, Vollister
Classification Chapel (Medieval)(Possible)
Canmore ID 1255
Site Number HU49SE 3
NGR HU 4783 9394
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1255
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Yell
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU49SE 3 4783 9394.
(HU 4762 9394) Chapel (LB) (Site of)
O.S.6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed.,(1900).
The site of an ancient chapel.
Name Book 1878.
No trace of a chapel could be found at the site indicated by the OS, but, according to local information, it stood at HU 4781 9394. There, overlaid by modern sheep-shelters and mutilated by robbing, are the vague footings of a building of indeterminate length, and about 3.7 m wide internally, over walls 1.0 m thich. It is oriented E-W and the E end appears to be apsidal. There is a cross-wall towards the E end and traces of a probable entrance into the "nave" on the S side.
Although the evidence suggests that the building is in fact a chapel, the amorphous nature of the remains precludes positive classification.
Visited by OS(NKB) 19th May 1969.
