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Churchyard, St Mary's Church, South Ronaldsay

A Category B Listed Building in East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray, Orkney Islands

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Coordinates

Latitude: 58.7424 / 58°44'32"N

Longitude: -2.9693 / 2°58'9"W

OS Eastings: 343992

OS Northings: 984270

OS Grid: ND439842

Mapcode National: GBR M51M.DGD

Mapcode Global: WH7D9.CJ89

Plus Code: 9CCVP2RJ+X7

Entry Name: Churchyard, St Mary's Church, South Ronaldsay

Listing Name: South Kirk (St Mary's) and Kirkyard and Kirkyard Gateway (Church of Scotland)

Listing Date: 8 December 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 352844

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB18715

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200352844

Location: South Ronaldsay

County: Orkney Islands

Electoral Ward: East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray

Parish: South Ronaldsay

Traditional County: Orkney

Tagged with: Churchyard

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Description

Kirk built c.1790. Rectangular-plan, crowstep gabled church with simple crowstepped bellcote with bell at W gable. Harled rubble; timber-framed windows; mixture of Welsh and local slate to roof. Interior recast 1896; timber pews; panelled pulpit; memorial stones.

KIRKYARD: gabled gateway built 1830. Contains a number of 17th Century gravestones.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical Building in use as such. Also historically known as the Lady Kirk. A good example of a late 18th Century Orcadian parish church. According to the Old Statistical Account this church was rebuilt in about 1790. It replaced an earlier church that is marked on Blaeu's Atlas of 1654. The church houses a rounded grey whin stone that is carved with 2 footprints and is believed to be a Pictish coronation stone.

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