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.
Detailed Attributes
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