Steering the Stone Ships: A Story of Orkney Kirks and People REL070000 ISBN13: 9781519479143

ISBN13: 9781519479143

All the time

THE LOST STORIES is

My love of American history

David Drake

Steering the Stone Ships: A Story of Orkney Kirks and People REL070000 ISBN13: 9781519479143From hermitages on wind blasted holms to dour nineteenth century preaching barns; from a splendid cathedral founded by a Norse earl to a Nissen hut painted by Italian prisoners during the Second World War; from city kirks built for huge and earnest Presbyterian congregations, to a diminutive Roman Catholic chapel converted from a byre Orkney's churches are diverse in scale, age, style and history, but all are built for one purpose. Jocelyn Rendall