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Westray, Noup

Chapel (14th Century)

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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Westray, Noup as Chapel (14th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Linked to Saint Mary, the site of the 14th-century chapel on Noup, Westray, is associated with early Christian worship in the Orkney Islands. Local tradition suggests the chapel may have been a place of pilgrimage, though specific cures or rituals connected to it are not well documented.

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