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Latitude: 58.9216 / 58°55'17"N
Longitude: -3.2922 / 3°17'31"W
OS Eastings: 325691
OS Northings: 1004535
OS Grid: HY256045
Mapcode National: GBR L574.NMN
Mapcode Global: WH6B7.D0JX
Plus Code: 9CCRWPC5+M4
Entry Name: Graemsay Kirk
Listing Name: Greaemsay Kirk Including Graveyard
Listing Date: 16 September 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393657
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46368
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393657
Location: Hoy and Graemsay
County: Orkney Islands
Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles
Parish: Hoy And Graemsay
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Church building Churchyard
Mid to later 19th century. 5-bay, rectangular-plan gabled hall church with lower 2-bay, gabled entrance vestibule to E end. Roughly coursed rubble with rubble dressings. Round-arched windows to main block.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bays grouped 5-2. Window in each bay in 5-bay group to left; boarded door with windows flanking to right in 2-bay group to right.
N ELEVATION: blank.
E ELEVATION: blank elevation to vestibule; gablehead stack above; 2, evenly disposed windows to main block behind.
W ELEVATION: central round-arched opening (former door).
Timber-framed fixed-pane windows. Traditional stone tiled roof; stone ridge; stone skews; block finial to W end; corniced gablehead stack to E.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.
GRAVEYARD: drystone rubble wall enclosing large rectangular-plan graveyard to W of church; rubble square-plan gatepiers to W; predominantly 19th century headstones.
No longer in ecclesiastical use. A simple, traditional church, remaining intact in form. Of particular interest is the traditional stone tiled roof.
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