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Sanday, 'st Mary's Chapel'

Chapel (medieval)

What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sanday, 'st Mary's Chapel' as Chapel (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
St Mary's Chapel on Sanday is associated with the veneration of the Virgin Mary, a common feature of many early Christian sites in the Orkney Islands. While specific cures or rituals linked to the chapel are not well documented, such chapels often became focal points for local pilgrimage and healing traditions.

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