Bits & Pieces At St. Ninian’s…… The Ness Shop…
by Bernie Bell - 08:05 on 27 August 2025
Bits & Pieces At St. Ninian’s……
When we went to see the Newark Project exhibition in St. Ninian’s……
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=17467
The room which contains a Norse Hogsback grave marker was open, so we took the opportunity to see it and some other bits & pieces of St. Ninian’s history – the Hogsback marker being the earliest……..
There’s a photograph, undated and labelled …. ‘Interior Parish Church Deerness From West Door’….
It looks very different from the church as it is now but by working out where it was taken from we could see the same basic interior, though much altered, as churches often are.
There’s a framed text of the Easter Lesson for 1937…
…..which, to me, connects with the silhouette of the soldier, as pictured in this piece….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/04/07/a-different-approach-to-sandside-bay/
Just outside this room, in the vestibule of the church, are some drawings of one of the previous churches on this site - the unusual church with two towers, as mentioned in this piece….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/10/13/the-old-kirks-of-orkney-vikings/
It was impossible to take a photo without including the window of light in the church – which I think is entirely fitting!....
This site has been a place of worship for a long time, with layer upon layer of history.
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The Ness Shop…
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/shop-update-2025/
Another reason to re-join the EU!
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