What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Bressay, St Mary's Church as Burial Ground (medieval), Church (medieval), Gravestone(s) (17th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Medieval burial ground and church, with 17th-century gravestones, located on Bressay, Shetland. The site is significant as a religious and funerary complex reflecting post-Reformation Scottish church practices in a peripheral island community.
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