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Latitude: 58.9642 / 58°57'51"N
Longitude: -2.8306 / 2°49'50"W
OS Eastings: 352327
OS Northings: 1008857
OS Grid: HY523088
Mapcode National: GBR M5C1.B0G
Mapcode Global: WH7C6.HY9B
Plus Code: 9CCVX579+MP
Entry Name: St Andrew's Burial-Ground, Hall Of Tankerness
Listing Name: Hall of Tankerness, St Andrew's Burial Ground, and Baikie Burial Vault
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 352635
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB18570
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Hall Of Tankerness, St Andrew's Burial-ground
ID on this website: 200352635
Location: St Andrews and Deerness
County: Orkney Islands
Electoral Ward: East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray
Parish: St Andrews And Deerness
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Church building Cemetery
Possibly late 18th century to early 19th century with later additions. Small single storey, rectangular-plan burial vault within rectangular-plan walled burial ground, sited to SW of hall.
VAULT: coursed rubble. Doorway with iron gate in W gable; (later) heraldic panel to gablehead above. Graded flagstone to slightly curved, pitched roof.
INTERIOR: mural tablets dated 1947 and 1950.
BURIAL GROUND: roughly rectangular-plan burial ground with rubble walls; stone flight to E wall with replacement iron gates; single storey rectangular-plan, crowstep-gabled store forming NE angle; harl-pointed; stone tiled roof.
The vault it is the burial place of the Baikie family to whom the hall passed around 1830. Probably a remnant of the Old
St Andrew's Chapel.
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