St Ola's Church And Burial-Ground, Gunnista is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Graveyard, burial enclosure, boundary wall.

St Ola's Church And Burial-Ground, Gunnista

WRENN ID
gilded-chalk-winter
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1997
Type
Graveyard, burial enclosure, boundary wall
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

18th century. Rectangular graveyard on site sloping to E containing headstones dating from 18th century, and single storey, 3 x 1-bay near-symmetrical classically detailed rectangular mausoleum.

BURIAL ENCLOSURE: stugged sandstone ashlar walls, moulded base course over rubble, wallhead slabs carved as lintel cornice at eaves. Margined corners and chamfered arrises to windows. Doorway centred in W elevation with flat-arch and skull and crossbones carved on keystone. Interior; grave slabs, 1 depicting skull and egg-timer, ashlar reveals framing doors and windows. Bays off-set to right at N and S (side) elevations, single window centring E elevation.

BOUNDARY WALL: drystone wall, topped partially by semicircular cope; square drystone gatepiers to W side.

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