ST. OLA, Kirkwall.
This church stands in Bridge Street Lane, and is now a carpenter’s shop and warehouse, the property of Mrs. John Reid. It formerly was enclosed in “a close” or court, and was once converted into a “poorhouse,” from which the close was called “Poorhouse Close.” It has been so much mutilated in its several conversions that little can be stated of its original style and arrangement.
It stands about west by south and east by north. It consists of one parallelogram, 35 feet by 18 feet inside. ([Fig. 78.]) The south side
Fig. 78.—St. Ola, Kirkwall. Plan.
abuts on the lane, and a house is attached to the west end, from which house into the chapel a modern doorway has been cut.
Fig. 79.—St. Ola, Kirkwall. Details.