St Mary's Chapel And Churchyard, Sand is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977. Chapel.
St Mary's Chapel And Churchyard, Sand
- WRENN ID
- twisted-cobble-ochre
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1977
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- HU 346 472
- Coordinates
- 60.20785, -1.37629
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Mary's Chapel and Churchyard is a late medieval ruin located in Sand, featuring a roughly L-shaped graveyard. The entrance gate is situated at the northeast corner, with a chancel arch to the south, which is integrated with the wall to the west.
The chancel arch is a segmental-headed structure made of random rubble, representing a fragment of the former chapel. Rubble fragments to the west and east indicate the positions of the nave and the narrower chancel.
The graveyard contains various enclosures made of rubble walls and decorative cast-iron railings. To the south of the chancel arch, there is a classical monument, which is currently in pieces as of 1996, dedicated to the Garriock family. This monument features a stepped base that supports a central funerary urn, flanked by battered memorial stones and topped with a shallow pediment. The enclosure around it is marked by cast-iron obelisk stanchions connected by chain-link.
The graveyard wall is constructed of battered random rubble with a triangular coping, which has been recently rebuilt in some areas. There is also a harled section at the southeast corner.
Local climate
St Mary's Chapel And Churchyard, Sand sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 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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