St Margaret's Kirk And Graveyard, Sandness is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977. Church. 2 related planning applications.
St Margaret's Kirk And Graveyard, Sandness
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-panel-tarn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1977
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St Margaret's Kirk And Graveyard, Sandness, ZE2 9PL
- OS grid reference
- HU 191 576
- Coordinates
- 60.30247, -1.65558
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Margaret's Kirk and Graveyard in Sandness is a hall church built in 1792, featuring a symmetrical design with two one-bay sections. The church has harled walls and includes hoppered nine-pane timber windows on either side of the central entrance on the south elevation. The east gable has a cement-rendered infill for the door, which is set within a pointed-arched opening in a gabled, stugged ashlar bellcote at the top. The north elevation consists of two bays, with a nine-pane timber window in the right bay and modern two-leaf doors in the left bay. The west gable also has pointed-arched windows with border-glazed stained glass.
The church is topped with a purple-grey slate roof that features harled skew copes. Surrounding the church is a graveyard enclosed by a harl-pointed battered rubble wall with a semicircular rubble cope on the south side. There are cast-iron railings flanking the church on the east and west, and square rubble gatepiers with pyramidal caps mark the vehicular and pedestrian gateways at the southeast corner.
Local climate
St Margaret's Kirk And Graveyard, Sandness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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