Baptist Church, Pierowall, Westray

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 30/03/2001 Local Authority Orkney Islands Planning Authority Orkney Islands Parish Westray NGR HY 43582 48548 Coordinates 343582, 1048548 — 1850 with small addition to S. 3-bay; rectangular-plan; main block; with rectangular-plan porch centred at E (entrance) elevation forming overall-Tplan; narrower; lower-height addition to S extended to rear (W) late 20th century. Plain symmetrical Baptist church with piended gablets. Harled with stone dressings. Coped gables. E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: finialled gable end of porch projects to centre; window to front; entrances with boarded timber doors to both returns. Large flanking windows set back to main body of church. Lower height addition set back to right; 3 windows (central one originally entrance). W ELEVATION: small lean-to addition projects to centre. Large flanking windows to main body of church. Small late 20th century flat-roofed extension (to earlier S addition) projects to right. N ELEVATION: blank gable end. S ELEVATION: gable end of lower height addition projects to centre; small late 20th century flat-roofed extension adjoins to left. 2 small flanking windows (originally taller) set back to main body of church. Mainly 12-pane timber sash and case windows to main body of church; multi-pane fixed timber frames elsewhere. Caithness slate roof laid in diminishing courses. INTERIOR: later 20th century suspended ceiling to main body of church. Boarded timber dado, pews, screen wall to rear of raised platform with lectern and window shutters (all probably dating from latter half of 19th century). BOUNDARY WALL: coursed rubble with rounded rubble coping; encloses large rectangular-plan plot of land to E. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. A plain largely intact mid 19th century dissenting chapel

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.