Fig. 95.—Chapel in Westray. View from North-West.
cylindrical vault, of which part remains. ([Fig. 96.]) It springs from the level of the impost of the chancel arch, and is slightly set back at the impost, as many of the old arches were, to give support to the centering.
Fig. 96.—Chapel in Westray. View from South-East.
It had one window, which was in the east end, which is now gone; but within a few years the east gable was existing. According to an old inhabitant the east window was like the south one in the nave. The vault is 1 foot 3 inches thick.
In the graveyard is lying what appears to be the saddlestone of one of the gables, of the red sandstone of Eday.
This chapel probably is of the twelfth century, and possibly of the thirteenth. Planned 1870.
CHURCH ON EGILSEY.
The island on which this church stands is about three miles north and south and one mile east and west. The church is on the west side of it near the Howa Sound, which separates Egilsey from Rousay, and is a conspicuous object from all sides, as the island has no prominent points, and the church is on the highest ground.