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Latitude: 60.7647 / 60°45'52"N
Longitude: -0.8959 / 0°53'45"W
OS Eastings: 460256
OS Northings: 1209582
OS Grid: HP602095
Mapcode National: GBR S049.22J
Mapcode Global: XHF74.RPTH
Plus Code: 9CGXQ473+VJ
Entry Name: Old Unst Church And Churchyard With Memorial Enclosures, Baliasta, Unst
Listing Name: Baliasta, Old Unst Kirk (Church of Scotland), Including Memorial Enclosures, Kirkyard Wall and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 18 October 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 351409
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17477
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200351409
Location: Unst
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: North Isles
Parish: Unst
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Church building Churchyard
1764. 6 x 1-bay near-symmetrical traditional hall church. Harl-pointed rubble walls with sandstone ashlar dressings and margins, chamfered at arrises.
E GABLE: symmetrical; round-arched doorway centred at ground with round-arched window centred in gablehead above.
S ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; windows below wallhead flanking centre; doorway in penultimate bay to left, window in penultimate bay to right; window in bay to outer left, and at eaves in bay to outer right.
W GABLE: matching E gable.
N ELEVATION: window margins surviving in full-height opening to right of centre, closed by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys finials. Low rubble-infilled doorway to outer left.
INTERIOR: joist-holes of U-plan gallery (now gone) along N wall and to outer left and right of S wall. Series of memorial enclosures comprising droved ashlar dwarf walls surmounted by cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys finials.
KIRKYARD: random rubble wall enclosing kirkyard; stone stile to N of kirk; modern timber gate to W, square cement-rendered gatepiers with pyramidal caps and 2-leaf timber gates to E. Series of rubble-walled enclosures to NE. Late 19th century memorials to S comprising concrete dwarf walls surmounted by decorative cast-iron brattishing.
Scheduled Monument. This church was built for the combined parishes of Unst. Its missing gable peak was reputedly demolished by a lightning strike in the 1920s.
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