Talk:Lunna Kirk

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Oddrun, could you please take a look at the Norwegian text that I've written, and replace the characters with Norwegian characters when necessary.

A lot of the photos are not to good as the weather was poor when I took them. I'm waiting for a fine day to go and re-take some of them.

GaryWiki 18:44, 30 December 2006 (GMT)

The photos are ok ;-),I shall look at the text and some misundestandings ;-)..You can't make shorter pic names ?? :-)
Cheers
Oddrun 19:08, 30 December 2006 (GMT)

"The present church was built by the forth Hunter of Lunna in 1753"
Not sure what is meant here ? fourth ? or something else
Heimdal 15:48, 27 August 2007 (MDT)

Oh dear, YES the 4th , Thanks !!!Oddrun 16:00, 27 August 2007 (MDT)

Think we should sort out the history a bit more ... there is the church fron the 17th century ... built on the foundations of an older church ... that' what we have ... we don't have the "Church (rem. of)" which are supposed under the knowe a bit to the NW (???) and that church actually is the basis for the "oldest church" still in use ... ;-) Islandhopper 17:30, 27 August 2007 (MDT)

I'm very, very happy if you can find more about the history, ,,,I have some bits and pieces here an there,,it's not easy to find history about the churches of Shetland. And there are many of them !! We have pics of a lot, so be prepared to more church history later. ;-), Cheers, Oddrun 21:23, 27 August 2007 (MDT)

Also, anybody got any info on a ruined building just to the SW of the kirk, which looks like it may have been a chapel also, with a house attached. Or perhaps it could have been a small school and schoolhouse.
Robbie 21:39, 27 August 2007 (MDT)

Been to the Lunna Kirk once for a visit, very interesting old building.

I just wanted to raise one point about the history of the Kirk, is there any way of proving it is the oldest Kirk still in use in Shetland? it's just that I've been doing a bit of research into the Kirks in Sandsting and Aithsting and have found that the Twatt Kirk and Sand Kirk date from pre 1780. Twatt is no longer in use but as far as I know Sand is still used. I'm planning on doing some more digging and I'll add any info I find to the pages of their respective pages.

--Kevin 08:11, 30 September 2008 (MDT)

DIG ! and add all info you can, I am very happy that someone is finally thinking about the kirks !! ;-) I really know nothing, just adds the written info I can get from the web and in books. The info about the "oldest kirk in use", I think it came from "Undiscovered Scotland", I know I've seen it someplace else on some other tourist info too...
Cheers, --Oddrun 09:31, 30 September 2008 (MDT)

Yes Kevin, delighted to have somebody else looking into this fascinating subject. Any information will be greatly appreciated.
For some strange reason Churches and Chapels seem to have very little of their history properly documented or easily available. We've been fairly lucky with the Dunrossness ones, thanks to local knowledge, but most of the others we've just had to rely on little snippets from books. And I won't bore you with my thoughts on the accuracy of most historical authors in Shetland ;-) ;-) :-)))
Robbie 10:03, 30 September 2008 (MDT)

I got the book, Medieval Churches and Chapels of Shetland out from the Library today and see that "Only at Lunna can one suggest with any confidence that a building subsantially of medieval origin remains in use" so that settles that! :) I'm still going to see if there is anything to be found on the Twatt and Sand kirks though.

--Kevin 14:16, 30 September 2008 (MDT)

Good,,,, whish I had that book, but hopefully you will add all what you find on a lot of Kirks ;-)))),
Cheers, --Oddrun 14:30, 30 September 2008 (MDT)

@Oddrun, don't know if you have read these:
Ecclesiological Notes on Some of the Islands of Scotland By Thomas Scott Muir
Jessie Saxby on Old Kirksites of Unst
So many kirks...so little time -- Morula 16:36, 30 September 2008 (MDT)