Orphir, parish (Orkney)

Grid reference

HY 334 044 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

333400 100440

Latitude

58.922095215971794

Longitude

-3.156760166596374

Nearby places

St Nicholas's Church, Orphir (Orkney) (0 miles)

Petertown, Mainland ORK (1.87 miles)

Stenness, parish (Orkney) (5.18 miles)

St Colm's Chapel, Hoy & Graemsay ORK (5.6 miles)

Firth, parish ORK (5.95 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

NGR for St Nicholas's Church (in ruins). The romanesque church was circular in plan, modelled on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, 'through Scandinavian prototypes', dateable 1090 x 1160 (NMRS).

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Relationships with other places

Contains Petertown, Mainland ORK

Contains St Nicholas's Church, Orphir (Orkney)

Contains St Nicholas's Church, Orphir (Orkney)

Parish TLA

ORP

County

Orkney

Medieval diocese

Orkney

Parish notes

It was united to Stenness by 1544 and to Firth by c.1551 (Cowan 1967, 160). At the Reformation the kirk of 'Orpher, Firth and Stanehous lyand within six mylis neidis ane minister'. But Orphir would later recover its independent parochial existence.