Ollaberry Church And Churchyard With Monument, Ollaberry is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977. Monument. 1 related planning application.
Ollaberry Church And Churchyard With Monument, Ollaberry
- WRENN ID
- ghost-landing-wind
- 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
- Monument
- Address
- Ollaberry Church And Churchyard With Monument, Ollaberry, ZE2 9RX
- OS grid reference
- HU 366 805
- Coordinates
- 60.507, -1.33395
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ollaberry Church and Churchyard features a large classical monument created by sculptor John Forbes in 1754. The monument is designed in the form of an aedicule set against a harl-pointed random rubble wall. It includes a steeply pedimented entablature and engaged, ball-finialled, Corinthian-like columns that frame a slab. This slab displays two armorial panels and an inscription that reads:
INTERRED BELOW THIS MONUMENT WE FIND
OUR VIRTUOUS CHILDREN AS THEY'RE HERE DESI(GNED?)
IN BLOOM OF YOUTH CUTT OF THIS EARTH
FREED FROM THE FORCES OF A CORRUPT AGE
The monument is signed 'John Forbes fecit 1754'.
Local climate
Ollaberry Church And Churchyard With Monument, Ollaberry sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 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 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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